Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Above is a sample ballot for the Senior election. Voting will be held from 9:45 to 10:15 and from 11:45 to 12:15 o'clock in the morning is Harvard, Emerson, and Sever, and in the House dinning halls and in Dudley at lunch and supper...
...case a strike is about to be called, a plebiscite on the issue must first be held among workers in the plant concerned, by secret ballot. Coercion by trade union leaders or employers is thus theoretically held at arm's length. The Premier believes that this will result in the workers themselves democratically blocking hundreds of incipient strikes...
...will undoubtedly lead to every conceivable kind of politics, vote-staggering, filibustering, and what not. Second, the Committee's idea of protesting an election in which the winners win by a slight margin is an example of sorehead thinking. Any man who permits his name to appear on a ballot must be ready to except the consequence of losing by 50, 5, or 2 votes. An election cannot be repeated anymore than a horse race. Third, the Committee questions the worth of petitions by holding that the system is "obviously discriminatory" against those put up by petition, since such nominees...
First act of a state turned authoritarian is to get itself democratically approved. Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin have all "gone to the polls," and those dictators at least retained the form of a secret, written ballot. Last week Europe's newest dictator, Carol von Hohenzollorn, "royal dictator" of Rumania, supplied the newest twist to the technique. He sent his 4,000,000-odd voters to the polls to register orally their support of his three-week-old regime. Names of those voting against the Government were recorded by election managers. When the tabulations were in, only 5,413 had dared...
Below is a sample ballot for the Senior Class elections. voting will be held today and tomorrow from 9:45 to 10:15 and from 11:45 to 12:15 o'clock in the morning at Harvard, Emerson, and Sever, and at the House Dining Halls and in Dudley at lunch and supper today, lunch only tomorrow. Vote early...