Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...incumbent, is widely rated a party liability. Last week the Wet Eastern wing of the G. 0. P. renewed its cries for his removal. William Scott ("Boss") Vare, Pennsylvania's Senator-reject whose plumping for Herbert Hoover at Kansas City in 1928 gave him the nomination on the first ballot, declared: "The people are tired of Prohibition . . . the re-election of President Hoover is extremely doubtful. . . . Unless the policies of the party are changed, I doubt that 1932 will be a Republican year...
...York as Democracy's lead candidate for the Presidency. Still across his availability fell the uncertain shadow of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Last month Governor Roosevelt and Mr. Smith got into a squabble over what otherwise would have been viewed as a political triviality on the New York State ballot. Submitted to the people was a proposal to amend the Constitution so that the State might spend some $20,000 over a period of years buying up abandoned farms and denuded lands ad joining State parks, and proceed to reforest them. Governor Roosevelt, Tam many Hall and all New York Republicans...
...Alexander, Jugoslavia had an election day last week. Results were certain. The Government took no chances. All opponents of the Government refused to have anything to do with the election. Candidates of the Government party only were allowed to appear on the voting list. Voting was not by secret ballot but orally, before a scowling election board. Since it is against the law to refuse to vote in Jugoslavia, the Govern-ment was returned to power almost unanimously. Even so, members of the opposition thought of a way to register a protest. Election day was Sunday. They refused...
...board members to his hospital to watch the operations on both men and goats. The doctors watched him transplant goat glands into two patients and promptly revoked his license. Dr. Brinkley countered by running for Governor. He entered the race too late to have his name put on the ballot, could not get newspapers to print his advertisements, had to instruct voters how to vote for him by radio. But his broadcast battle cry was "Let's pasture the goats on the State House lawn!"?and he polled 188,339 votes, only 28.862 less than Successful Candidate Harry Woodring...
Meanwhile Peru has had a triple revolution. Picturesque, hard-swearing Lieut. Col. Luis Sanchez Cerro, who led the first armed revolt and was ousted by the second, became a presidential candidate after the third revolt. Peruvian voters chose by ballot between the Colonel and three other candidates, all civilians. While the vote was being counted gunmen in a speeding car riddled the residence of Candidate Sanchez Cerro with random bullets, killed nobody. Startled, but by no means unnerved, Colonel Sanchez Cerro received with a tight grin of satisfaction last week the news that he had been elected President of Peru...