Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...named by the Freshman Union Committee itself, with the advice of Eugene Keith '42 and George Putnam '43, Advisers for Freshman Affairs. All applications for nomination must be in by tomorrow afternoon, since the Union Committee will hold another meeting that night to pick 30 names for the ballot...
...those who have been overlooked by the Committee can obtain 25 signatures on a petition, they will be placed on the ballot before the deadline next Tuesday...
...order that the poll may provide an accurate picture of undergraduate opinion, all students are urged to answer carefully the questions on the ballot...
Party. On the sixth ballot at Philadelphia, when the triumphant galleries still shouted "We want Willkie!," when Thomas Dewey had released his delegates and Wendell Willkie had won the Republican nomination, came one last, defiant Illinois Dewey vote. It was cast by Delegate Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, die-hard isolationist, the New Deal's bitterest journalistic enemy. Last week the bitter hate-filled Chicago Tribune read the Republican candidate out of the Republican Party: "Mr. Willkie entered the Republican Party as a mysterious stranger, suddenly and to the astonishment of thousands of the party members...
...thoroughly swamped, were the minor parties. Of the record total of 49,818,095 votes cast, 27,245,422 went to Roosevelt. 22,323,801 to Willkie. Norman Thomas' Socialist vote (116,796) was the lowest since 1900, when a Socialist candidate (Eugene Debs) first appeared on the ballot. Communist Earl Browder, barred from some State ballots, got only 49,028, ran behind Prohibitionist Roger Babson, who polled 58,674. Total for all minor-party candidates: 239,772, their worst showing since 1876. Scattered votes were cast but not counted for: Thomas E. Dewey, Bruce Barton, James A. Farley...