Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...approve a proposed new Constitution for Portugal, providing for the election of the President by popular vote instead of by Parliament. It was the first time in five years that any one in Portugal has voted for anything, first time in history that Portuguese women have had a ballot. Promptly the government announced that the Constitution had been approved by 60% of eligible voters, only 5% voting contrariwise. As the government had already announced that all who abstained from voting would be counted as favoring the proposed Constitution, the Carmona government claimed 95%, endorsement...
...effort to determine the undergraduate attitude on the question of serving beer in the University dining halls, and to aid the authorities in making up their announced "open mind" on the question, the Crimson will conduct a poll in all the Houses and the Union today. Ballot boxed will be placed in the dining halls at all meals. Preliminary returns received during the breakfast and lunch hours will be posted outside the CRIMSON building during the day, with the final results to be announced in tomorrow's paper...
...addition to sounding out student opinion on the serving of beer in the dining halls, the ballot is framed so as to elicit information on the number of men who drink beer, its effects on them and on the food, and their estimated consumption. The last question deals with the proposal to allow men to bring their own beer into the dining and common rooms for consumption there in the event that the city of Cambridge votes for "no license." No further announcement on the beer question was forthcoming front University Hall yesterday...
McKee's political supporters base a large part of their confidence on the fact that in the last mayoralty race some 262,649 New Yorkers took the trouble to write in his name on the ballot. This may well be encouraging to McKee's friends, but it cannot fail to be singularly discouraging to those who still hope for a real reform of the city government. McKee was for twenty > backing in the Bronx and Queens Democratic machine. While no one can reasonably object to the substitution of McKee's chubby face for O'Brien's anthropoidal features, the change...
...election year one must discount the omniverous shadow of the ballot box; and in a depression year, one must discount the tragic little concluding sermon on materialism. To the man who was too busy or too lazy to follow the newspapers in 1932, "The American Scene" will appear trenchant and indispensable. The well informed man will find in it perhaps three hours of pleasant reminiscence and then recommend it for the attention of the neighborhood high school teacher of current events...