Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...protest against two bills recently introduced in the Massachusetts Legislature favoring the removal from the ballot of the Communist Party and any other groups advocating forceful overthrow of the government, the legislative committee of the Harvard Liberal Union sent a delegation to the Assembly yesterday...
Louis H. Pollak '44 said in a statement released by the delegation last night, "This bill is designed to protect out citizenry from 'un-American' doctrines by barring the Communist Party from the ballot. But is not the very basis of democracy the belief that no ideal is absolute, and no body of men capable of absolute definition of Americanism...
Meanwhile in the Senate chamber the vote was a tie, 32-to-32. The Vice President, no one else, can break a tie: it is the only time he can cast a ballot. When the Vice President failed to appear, by the rules of the Senate the measure was put down as defeated. Not until it was too late did anyone tell Mr. Wallace...
With a solid N.Y.A. report, a parietal rules recommendation, and a report on education under its belt, the Student Council has settled down into a late-winter lethargy. Only two brief routine ballot checking meetings have been held in the last six weeks, and at one of these exactly five of the seventeen representatives of the undergraduate body showed up at meeting time. The only meeting which has had anything like full attendance was the one at which a life photographer was also present...
Chicago revolted. When Director Cummings marshaled the Jones forces for the first ballot, he found that instead of the five he needed, he had only four. The missing vote was vacationing in Florida. When Cummings offered a proxy for Schram, acting President Clifford S. Young, himself the and-Jones candidate for the job, declared it no election. At this point, the news leaked out to a Chicago Tribune reporter, who rushed it into print. Angry telegrams began burning up the wires to FRB in Washington, begging them to call off RFC's dogs. There was so much talk that...