Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sallow face crimson, fists waving, Frank Hague yelled denials that there had been any ballot-box stuffing, fraudulent voting, terrorizing of voters in Hudson County. Sample lines from the script...
...Washington Iowa's native son, Henry Agard Wallace, enjoyed more than usual philosophic serenity. He had voted by absentee ballot about ten days before. Reporters had trouble finding him on election evening. He was having dinner with his campaign tour manager and former assistant in the Department of Agriculture, tall, thin, monosyllabic James Le Cron (whose wife is a sister of John and Gardner Cowles, Midwest publishers, ardent Willkie backers both). Unruffled as ever, the man who was certain to have a big-perhaps unprecedentedly big-assignment in the new administration sat before the radio, listened, finally unbent, told...
...State Department a queer situation obtained. Many a Roosevelt voter had in his heart cast half of his ballot for Secretary Cordell Hull. The Willkie campaign had courted Mr. Hull, would perhaps have asked him to stay on for a period. But the long friction between Hull and Under Secretary Sumner Welles could not go on indefinitely. Furthermore, Roosevelt was expected, after the usual six-to-nine-month period of hesitation, to nudge Hull out for a younger, more aggressive man. Yet it was said that the grave old Tennessean would never leave his post, if Welles...
...Socialist candidates are on 29 of the state ballots, Thomas revealed, having been kept off many slates "by very high-handed methods." A petition with 50 names signed to it for each county is necessary to be put on the ballot...
Included among those receiving a total of one ballot were: John W. Aiken (Socialist-Labor), Tallulah Bankhead, Nicholas Murray Butler, R. W. Grover, Tom Harmon, Margie Hart, and A. Hitler...