Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somewhere along his rise from sewer worker to political boss of Chicago, Edward Joseph Kelly learned not to drop his gs, acquired a hard, shining polish. To his machine's reputation for ballot-stuffing, patronage-grabbing, "muscling" the votes of prostitutes and gamblers, there still clings a sewer-like smell. But the sanctified odor of a Senatorial toga, thought Ed Kelly, might cover that...
Until he ran for Councilman, on a spur-of-the-moment decision, he had been only a sideline politico. His campaign amazed Manhattan politicians. With no machine support, he ran third among six Councilmen elected in New York City. Helpfully, he mailed 200,000 sample ballots to voters, showing how to mark the complicated proportional representation ballot. In Harlem, which gave him some 50,000 No. 1 votes, there were fewer spoiled ballots than anywhere else in the city...
Gary Cooper took honors as top actor of the year (for Sergeant York) with 14 votes on the first ballot. His nearest competitor: Orson (Citizen Kane) Welles, 2. Top actress: Joan Fontaine (for Suspicion). Neck-and-neck with her up to the sixth ballot: Sister Olivia de Havilland (for Hold Back the Dawn). Best Director: John Ford (for How Green Was My Valley)-voted best for the third year running. Welles lost that honor by only two votes...
...week wore on, no slant-eyed invaders menaced Victoria. The one Japanese qualified to vote in the Vancouver civic elections solemnly cast his ballot unmolested. Factories which had canceled night shifts went back to work. Like most of the world, Canada's west coast was getting down to the nasty business...
According to a standard Argentine wisecrack the Argentine ballot is so secret that even the voter does not know for whom he is voting. But Buenos Aires voters, whatever their sympathies, had no doubt that when the returns came in the Conservatives would have...