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...shoe-string." The decisive vote is the "floating" vote which can be polled only by distributing, or allowing to be distributed, money for the precinct organizers. The money does not actually "buy votes." It is paid to venal "runners" or "workers" on Election Day to fetch their relatives to vote. Estimating that there are 150,000 precincts in the U. S., each averaging 400 voters of whom perhaps two-thirds vote, Mr. Kent reckons that that party wins which has the money to employ ten "runners" per precinct at $5 or $10 for the day. Each "runner" fetches about...
Meanwhile the futility of hired soldiers preyed upon Machiavelli's thoughts. By dint of pulling every known string, he was authorized to organize a national conscription similar to the system he had noted...
Tomorrow night the polo team's string of ponies will be shipped to Rye, New York, in preparation for the intercollegiate tournament, which starts Saturday afternoon with games between Yale and Princeton, and Pennsylvania Military Institute and West Point. Harvard drew a bye in the first round, and its second round opponent is still unknown. The team leaves Cambridge Saturday morning for observation of future rivals, and for the dinner Saturday night at the Westchester-Biltmore Country Club...
Concerto Grosso in D minor for String Orchestra (Op. 6, No. 10) Handel...
...seating arrangement is tactical, not alphabetical. This year, Maine's delegation is front-and-centre. Front right (facing the rostrum) is California; front left, Pennsylvania. Behind California will sit a string of western delegations. Behind Maine are the other New England States, then New York. Behind Pennsylvania come Ohio and other Midwesterners. Southerners are relegated to the rear...