Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plan E Committee headquarters last night kept an official silence on the results of the first day's ballot-counting, but individual members "in the know" disclosed that their endorsed candidates had the inside track over most of the others running for City Council...
...election that the N.L.R.B. will hold at Fore River on October 22 is a "yes" or "no" vote on the question of unionism. C.I.O.'s Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers is the only shipyard union recognized by the N.L.R.B. and the only union that will appear on the ballot. A defeat for the C.I.O. would cut off 17,000 Quincy workers from collective bargaining for at least a year, and jeopardize Fore River's chances to match the record-pace of defense output in the union yards. In nine of eleven Bethlehem yards already represented by C.I.O. production...
...Argentina," a cynical politician once said, "we have carried the secret ballot to its logical extreme: it is so secret that not even the voter knows for whom he is voting...
Under the new system, nine men will be elected to a council by proportional representation from a ballot which already contains ever 90 names. The council elects a mayor from among its own members, who holds down a purely ceremonial post. The nine councillors hire a non-political city manager who runs the city as a business organization and is responsible solely to them...
City councillors tried to sabotage attempts to bring Plan E on the ballot. At one time, the committee sponsoring it had to get an order from the courts before the Cambridge council would take the necessary steps to permit citizens to vote on the city manager form of government...