Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sullivan '33 is listed in the Sophomore ballot for the Student Council, and not C. R. Sullivan '33, as announced in yesterday's CRIMSON. Vernon Munroe '31, in charge of the voting, has announced that ballots must be in the mail next Monday night, a day later than originally planned...
...When it was over, 45 minutes more were taken to count it, check and double-check. The count: Paul Doumer 442 Aristide Briand 401 Jean Hennessy 15 Marcel Cachin 10 Gaston Doumergue 7 Paul Painlevé 2 Scattered 20 Blank 4 Total 901 Thus on the first ballot nobody got a majority of over half the votes, the necessary minimum to elect. But M. Doumer had failed to win by only seven votes. M. Briand by 48. The result, to a practiced parliamentary eye, was decisive-for a large block of centre National Assemblymen were known to have pledged themselves...
Additional names may be joined to the list of nominations, attached by low, by petition. These petitions must be signed by 20 members of the nominee's class, and must be handed to Munroe not later than next Tuesday night. Voting will be held by secret ballot on the following Wednesday and Thursday. Feeling that with the advent of the new Houses, each unit should be represented in the council for next year, the retiring board has taken steps to make this possible...
...year's best editorial: "The Gentleman from Nebraska," an appreciation of Insurgent Senator George William Norris. Extract: "Norris does not represent Nebraska politics. He is the personification of a Nebraska protest against the intellectual aloofness of the East. A vote for Norris is cast into the ballot box with all the venom of a snowball thrown at a silk hat. The spirit that puts him over is vindictive, retaliatory. Another Senator might get Federal projects, administrative favor, post offices and pork barrel favor for Nebraska, but the State is contemptuous of these. For nearly two decades Norris has kept Nebraska...
...spite of the applause which greeted the assertion that the remedy for political evils lies not in the red flag, but in the ballot box, and in spite of the fervor with which the bass drummer accompanied the singing of "The Internationale," neither the man of property nor the apostles of Lenin could glean much satisfaction from the proceedings. For none of the uniformed officers interfered with communist speakers, although outnumbering the twenty-nine avowed communists by almost three to one, they might have mastered them without machine-guns. And none of Moscow's emissaries attempted to heckle Mr. Fish...