Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hampshire seat in the U. S. House last month was Arthur B. Jenks, Republican. His Democratic opponent, Alphonse Roy, demanded a recount, result of which was announced last fortnight as the first Congressional tie in 110 years: 51,679-to-51,679 (TIME, Dec. 7). Last week the State Ballot Law Commission spent eleven hours examining contested ballots, declared Democrat Roy the winner by 17 votes. Prospective Republican membership in the 75th House was thus whittled from a minuscule 89 to a more minuscule...
...Representative William Nathaniel Rogers, Democrat, retired. Republican Jenks was declared winner by 550 votes. Democrat Roy appealed for a recount. Last week New Hampshire's Secretary of State Enoch D. Fuller announced the result: Jenks 51,679 votes, Roy 51,679. He suggested the rivals ask the State Ballot Law Commission to review the recount. If the Ballot Board does not change it, incoming Governor Francis P. Murphy will probably have to call a special reelection...
...North Dakota after 48 hours of ballot-counting, citizens last week found out whom they had elected Governor. It was not Democrat John Moses, nor Republican Governor Walter Welford. It was their old radical fireband, ex-Governor William A. Langer who two years ago was ousted from office by the State Supreme Court after being convicted of permitting the use of relief funds for political purposes, who last year on his third trial of that charge got himself acquitted, who last summer lost in the Republican primaries to Governor Welford who led the more conservative element of the Non-Partisan...
...Communist Party, whose single stronghold is New York City, lost its place on New York State's ballot by failing to roll up the required 50,000 votes for its candidate for Governor. The Red President nominee, Earl Browder, ran 5,000 votes behind his gubernatorial ticket-mate in the State. His national total was some 57,000, down 46,000 from...
...beginning in 1916, on the question: "Shall there be a convention to revise the Constitution and amend the same?" In 1916, with the failure of the previous year fresh in mind, the electorate voted No. Last week, 20 years having elapsed, the question again appeared on every New York ballot. Rare was the voter who knew why it was there. It was not mentioned in any political platform. Candidates generally ignored it in their speeches. No civic agency seemed greatly interested in its passage or defeat. Nevertheless, when the ballots were counted it was found that millions of yea-saying...