Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Monday morning the CRIMSON will open a poll for the expression of student opinion upon the matter of beer drinking in the University dining halls. Ballots and ballot boxes will be placed in the Union and in each of the House dining halls, and voting will be open during meal times...
...understood that the city of Cambridge, by ordinance, forbids the sale of intoxicating liquors. According to present laws, there must be a special balloting to determine whether the local prohibition shall continue. In consideration of this possibility, the CRIMSON ballot will allow students to express an opinion as to whether the University should allow men to take beer into the dining and common rooms and to consume it there...
When a Prussian Deputy tried to fly his country's flag. Berlin police made him take it down. The Deputy's country-the German Republic-was dying if not dead. Meanwhile out of the ballot box another Germany was being reborn. Its flag- black, white & red-the onetime Imperial Hohenzollern colors, flew in every street, floated majestically from Government buildings and was flaunted everywhere by shouting, cheering throngs. Goosestepping as smartly as when they were members of Germany's Imperial Army, and with several Hohenzollern Princes in their ranks, 20,000 Stahlhelmers paraded down Unter den Linden...
...dazzled by a promised "new deal" (for Chancellor Hitler made no specific election pledges whatsoever), Germans, hoping that somehow he will bring back "the good old times." turned out in such numbers on the brilliant, balmy Election Sunday that 88% of the electorate cast ballots-an all-time record. Stay-at-homes got no peace from the Government radio which sternly commanded every few minutes: "Do your duty! Get out and vote! Cast your ballot for the Government parties...
Grimly one of Herr Funk's assistants recalled that 6,000,000 Germans or one-sixth of all Germans who went to the polls voted Communist in November 1932. "This time," he exulted, "every Communist ballot will be thrown...