Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Late returns in the CRIMSON's presidential poll last night found Wendell Willkie still well out in front of President Roosevelt, with a majority of 640. This was a ten-ballot increase over his 630 lead of Friday night. The final score: Willkie 234b, Roosevelt 1705, Thomas 177, Browder...
...Freshmen were most productive of dark horses, but Leverett House achieved the largest total for any one of the unlisted candidates, giving 10 votes to Roger W. Babson as a hangover from the resent whirlwind ballot-battle of Prohibitionist. Henry H. Morgan '41 Babson's total in the entire University...
After a narrow defeat in 1938, Plan E has wrangled its way back on the ballot. The battle was lost two years ago in a barrage of personal bickerings and town-gown flare-ups that all but overshadowed the issue in dispute. This time the question is put more soberly before the electorate: does Cambridge stand to gain from a professional city government in which political play is kept at an absolute minimum...
Asserting in a broadcast that "we are sick of the kind of one-man government that calls an ambassador of the United States "my ambassador"-an allusion to President Roosevelt's Boston speech-Willkie said that Mr. Roosevelt's associates in government were "the secret ballot behind the ballot that the third term candidate offers to the country...
Most obvious of all is the inadequate provision made for conscript voting. The trainee may vote by absentee ballot if his state allows or he may obtain a one day leave. This is hardly sufficient for most men to reach their homes and return, and it would also involve a great expense. Furthermore, future registration will certainly be curtailed by these rules. In this time when every decision taken will have so profound an effect on our future, an untold number of men are deprived of one of their most sacred liberties and duties because they are "learning to preserve...