Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...efforts in Maine and in the southern states to deprive the Communists of their rights to go on the ballot that again is disloyalty to our American principles. It will drive the movement underground and make of its leaders martyrs. It is the more uncalled for, because the Communist movement constitutes today no menace whatever--I am told that there are not 500 Communists in Maine. But if there were 50,000 they have the right to their opinion and to political activity as long as they do not counsel overt acts against the government. It is folly to legislate...
With seven names added to the ballot by petition, voting for Freshman Class officers began in the Union yesterday morning under the direction of an upperclass committee, headed by Shaun Kelly...
...fashioned opinions of Karl Marx and Nikolai Lenin no dictatorship could count on getting enough votes if the ballot were secret. This fallacy Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini have exploded with secret ballot after secret ballot in 'which they always poll better than 90%. Last week Joseph Stalin decided that it will now be all right for the Soviet Union to have secret ballots...
...Union there are seven such Federal republics and seven such puppet Presidents. Said President Mussabekov, addressing the All-Union Congress of Soviets: "I believe our beloved country is now virtually rid of Capitalist elements. Consequently we can advance to a new stage in the development of Socialism: the secret ballot, direct elections and equalization of the voting rights of peasants and proletarians...
...proposal for Soviet progress mildly paradoxical. Another great stride was taken some years ago when piece work, abolished in Russia after the Revolution, was restored by Stalin. Last week Soviet editors soon got wind of popular rumors that "free speech" is going to be granted along with the secret ballot. Promptly scotching these rumors, State newsorgans stated that Russians will not be granted free speech-the one thing no dictator dares to grant...