Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Apex" building, into which the Federal Trade Commission will move in May. Big and simple, Sculptor Lantz's designs, each of a gigantic work horse held in control by a powerful man, were adjudged the best of 247 entrants by a jury uniquely chosen by ballot among the competitors. The Treasury announced that guesses were free as to what the figures symbolized. Said Pudgy Sculptor Lantz: "I'm no Michelangelo. I feel lucky...
...happens, the National Peasant Party, Premier Goga's doughtiest foe, has spent 20 years teaching Rumanian peasants, who are mostly illiterate, to recognize and vote the ticket headed on the ballot by the Peasant Party symbol, a circle. Last week, on the advice of ingenious Premier Goga, King Carol decreed this circle and all other Rumanian party symbols abolished. He announced that the first party to apply would be given a ballot symbol of one black dot, the next two dots, and so on up to 28 dots (there are 28 Rumanian parties). It was next discovered that...
...vote of the members of the Baseball Writers Association, who have been given the task of choosing players whose careers ended some time between 1900 and the year of election; 2) selection by a committee of oldsters, who choose 19th Century heroes. In this year's ballot, Grover Cleveland Alexander was the only player who received enough votes to qualify. Of 262 votes he received...
...open. These earliest comers were reported in most cases to be elderly men and women. Vigorous young Russians, confident of being able to shove through the crowds, mostly arrived "late"-that is not until early morning. Many an old woman was reported to have exclaimed after casting her ballot, "I had a terrible headache before-but now it is gone. I feel so much better since I have been able to vote for Stalin...
Since each ballot was printed with two names (the name of a candidate for the lower house and the name of a candidate for the upper house of the Supreme Soviet), the Government newsorgan Izvestia claimed that two scratched votes equaled only one scratched ballot-that is, one voter who balked at voting for the candidates put up by Mr. Stalin's friends...