Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...special session to perfect its soldier vote law. When the Representatives finish their deliberations beneath the Sacred Cod on the wall, and the State Senate concurs, Massachusetts will probably have the most intelligent - and non-controversial - soldier vote law in the U.S. Anyone in the family can get a ballot sent to a serviceman. Even a constitutional requirement that new voters must be able to read the State Constitution in English will cause no trouble. Five lines of the Constitution will be printed on the ballot envelope. A sergeant on the remotest Pacific atoll will be witness enough that...
...Republican Lev Saltonstall made his way in a day when the red hat of Boston's Catholic Cardinal O'Connell has had vastly more political power in Massachusetts than the crimson tie of Harvard. Yankees may control the Massachusetts purse strings, but Irish Democrats control the ballot boxes. The Old Stock has long since been flooded under by successive waves of immigrants who rapidly became voters; the Irish (70% of the Boston vote), the Italians, French Canadians, Poles, Russian Jews. Boston's best can and do keep the whip hand over bank directorates, and in the overstuffed...
Leland S. McKittrick '47 was nominated but his name does not appear on the ballot because he is leaving the College...
...Soldier Vote problem up to the 48 Governors. Congress had said that a Federal overseas ballot could be used only with each State's permission, since State laws variously forbid or would interfere with such a ballot. Asked the President: Will your State approve a Federal ballot to supplement your own? Replied the Governors: five yeses; 14 maybes; 18 probably-nots or definite noes; five don't-knows. These 42 replies in hand, the President mulled what he said was the main question: would the Congressional compromise give any more soldiers the vote than no new legislation...
Democrats and ALPsters, instead of glowing over victory, rushed into print with as many "explanations" as if they had lost. Election Day was wet, snowy, and nasty; balloting was only one-fourth of normal. They alibied on & on: loyal Negro Democrats weren't interested; Franklin Roosevelt himself was not on the ballot; New York's fiery Fiorello LaGuardia, telling his supporters after the election what he was careful not to say before, blamed his Party's weak choice. He described Bennet as "cultured, educated and experienced" and Torrens as a "Tammany wardheeler...