Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night last week in the 105th Field Artillery Armory in The Bronx a weary group of men turned up their visors, pushed back their chairs on which they had been sitting for 24 days. They had just completed a count of 2,013,101 ballots. It had been going on since November 5, the longest and biggest counting job ever undertaken in any U. S. city. New York had replaced its old board of aldermen with a new city council, and the council's members were the first city officials ever to be elected by proportional representation...
Voting will be by secret ballot for the first time in Soviet history. This week in electoral districts all over Russia citizens were rounded up nightly to be addressed by the only candidate for whom their secret ballots can be cast...
...votes as the Republican candidate, 159,895 votes as the Fusion candidate, and 28,839 as a Progressive. But 482,459 of the votes that gave him his 454,425 plurality came from an organization that has never before appeared on a New York mayoralty ballot, the American Labor Party, which polled more votes than any independent political organization has received in a U. S. municipal election since...
...Party was organized in July 1936 by New York leaders of John L. Lewis' and Major George Berry's nationwide Non-Partisan League who thought that Labor in the State was politically ripe for a full-fledged party of its own. In its first appearance on the ballot, it justified that expectation by polling 300,000 votes for Roosevelt and Democratic Governor Herbert Lehman. In its second appearance last week, it not only held the balance of power in New York's municipal election but helped elect Democrat Thomas F. Holling as mayor of Buffalo...
...Workers, and Richard Frankensteen, U. A. W. vice president and hero of the Ford "Battle of the Overpass." both placed among the first nine of the 18 councilmanic candidates named for the run-off election (TIME, Oct. 18). Three other U. A. W. candidates earned places on the councilmanic ballot...