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Politics & elections, 1925

3,661 stories in Sydney's papers · page 49 of 184

Paris Communists. Election Disturbances. London, April 24

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 April 1925 · page 13

The conclusion of a municipal election meeting in Paris was marked by a serious affray. A number of Communists ambushed some adherents of M. Millerand's organisation of…

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Basic Wage Rate. for Unemployed. Pledging Labour Candidates

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 April 1925 · page 14

The Trades and Labour Council has approved of the proposal of the Unemployed Union, that it should ask all Labour candidates in the forthcoming elections to give a…

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The Churches Church People and the Elections

The Labor Daily · Saturday 25 April 1925 · page 8

With the approach of the elections It behoves church people to seriously consider the situation. if not as institutions, at least an individuals…

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Ptomaine Effects Labor Candidate's Illness Hillston

The Labor Daily · Saturday 25 April 1925 · page 6

When Mr. Nulty, one of the selected Labor candidates, was some ten miles out of Hiliston on Tuesday afternoon, travelling alonne by car to…

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Candidates Speak

The Labor Daily · Saturday 25 April 1925 · page 6

Messrs. D. J, Davies and G. Booth (two of the selected Labor candidates for Newcastle), Mrs, Monkey, of Sydney, and Mr. J. P. Dunn, one of…

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Election Fight Three Persons Killed Paris, April 24

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 April 1925 · page 11

At the conclusion of a municipal election meeting, presided over by a deputy, in the Department of the Seine a fight arose, in which three…

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LABOR Brilliant Brains in Parliament If Labor is Returned To Power

Sunday Times · Sunday 26 April 1925 · page 3

In the present contest the Labor Party is singularly fortunate in the type of candidate carrying the party standard. Not even in the palmy…

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£100 Prize Sunday Times Competition Forecast the Parties at State Elections

Sunday Times · Sunday 26 April 1925 · page 7

A PRIZE OF £100 is offered by The Sunday Times in a simple election competition. The £100 PRIZE will be awarded to the person who most…

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Latest News by Cable Presidential Elections in Germany Provoke Scenes of Tense Excitement LONDON

Sunday Times · Sunday 26 April 1925 · page 4

The Presidential campaign in Germany is assuming extraordinarily virulent proportions, and is most likely to produce the closest voting on…

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City Tatt's Review : Newcastle Cup : Likely Derby Colts Under the Microscope Cup Candidates Stayers in Action at City Tatt's Meeting Stony's Great Chance

Truth · Sunday 26 April 1925 · page 2

MANY of those engaged in City Tatt's Cup on Saturday are horses who have failed at the A. J . C. Autumn meeting, but as their form has been pretty well exposed it shouldn't greatly trouble backers to find the winner…

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Ryde Candidates Fifteen Offering

The Sun · Sunday 26 April 1925 · page 11

In Ryde electorate the contest was opened earlier than in other centres, when the leader of the Protestant Independent Labor Party delivered his…

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At Fever Point Election Excites Germany Hindenburg on Peace London

The Sun · Sunday 26 April 1925 · page 1

The excitement over the Gorman presidential election to-morrow has reached fever-point, says the Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Mail."…

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Combing the State Strenuous Election Campaign at Hand Gruelling Time for Party Leaders

The Sun · Sunday 26 April 1925 · page 5

From to-morrow the real work will commence--work that means wooing the electors by many words and much travel. To-morrow night the Premier will kindle the flame that will throw political light and heat over the 309,432 square miles that comprise the State of New South Wales. And when the poll is…

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Von Hindenburg Elected President of the German Republic Prussian Junker at Head of Nation Majority Over Other Candidates Germany Declares Adherence to Monarchy Big Poll Is Recorded "Deutschland Uber Alles" London

Evening News · Monday 27 April 1925 · page 1

FIELD-MARSHAL VON HINDENBURG, the candidate of the Nationalist Party, has been elected at German President, defeating Dr. Marx, who represented a combination of Centre Party, Democrats and Socialists…

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Foreign Editor's Diary a Sterling Alliance German Election

Evening News · Monday 27 April 1925 · page 1

BRITAIN: To-morrow Mr. Winston [?] will introduce his [?] which is likely to be of [?]…

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Cumberland. Four Labour Candidates. Council's Decision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 April 1925 · page 14

At a meeting of the Cumberland Electorate Council yesterday it was decided to run four candidates in the Cumberland electorate. Mrs. F. Ewers was accepted with Mr. R…

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The Elections. Labour's Campaign. Criticised by Premier

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 April 1925 · page 11

"I have been interested, in reading the country newspaper reporta of the speeches delivered in the country by Mr. Lang and his colloaguos, to find that they are barren…

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Labor Dispute Trouble in Cumberland an Unofficial Candidate

The Sun · Monday 27 April 1925 · page 6

As far as the A.L.P. executive is concerned, there will be only three official candidates for the Australian Labor Party in the Cumberland…

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No Outside Pledges Labor Candidates Instructed

The Sun · Monday 27 April 1925 · page 6

As is usual at election times, candidates are being requested by various bodies to give pledges that, if they are returned, certain "reforms" will…

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By-election

The Labor Daily · Monday 27 April 1925 · page 6

The extraordinary election held to fill the vacancy caused in the Enfield Council by the death of Ald. Bush resulted: J. W. Parks 97, T. A…

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