Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...joke, three girl friends of Stenographer Mildred Vanecek, 21, wrote her name in on the ballot for Justice of the Peace at Council Bluffs, Iowa. There was no other candidate. Stenographer Vanecek became the first woman justice in County history...
...number of Reichstag seats varies, according to the number of votes cast. Last week 79% of those entitled to vote cast a ballot, as compared to 84% last July...
...long been the policy of the Communist party to make a strong play for the sympathy of the Southern Negro, not with any hope of ballot victories, but with the purpose of gaining allies for the ever-threatening revolution. In this instance their championship of the Scottsboro boys appears to have been at best ill-advised. The race prejudice which grips the South did not need the addition of a red-phobia to assure the accused Negroes of an unfair trial, but the Communists increased the difficulties of their proteges when they made an issue of the affair...
...However, in any broad national view of the election, the tendency to political realignment overshadows in dynamic importance, the personalities and the alleged issues. But now that the campaign is completed, every American citizen, eligible to vote, must shoulder his duty and go to the polls to cast his ballot tomorrow. The dregs of the debate ended, the American people will do well to place a unified executive and legislative administration in Washington, giving one party the undivided support of the nation, that it may meet the depression on even terms...
...long been the policy of the Communist party to make a strong play for the sympathy of the Southern Negro, not with any hope of ballot victories, but with the purpose of gaining allies for the over-threatening revolution. In this instance their championship of the Scottsboro boys appears to have been at best ill-advised. The race prejudice which grips the South did not need the addition of a red-phobia to assure the accused Negroes of an unfair trial, but the Communists increased the difficulties of their proteges when they made an issue of the affair...