Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...together, go to Philadelphia, make up its mind. That mind was still wandering last week. All that seemed certain was: 1) Thomas E. Dewey and Robert Alphonso Taft would go to the convention with more delegates than anyone else; 2) neither would have enough to win on the first ballot. Plentiful were the guesses that a dark horse might romp away with the nomination. The most rambunctious dark horse, getting more rambunctious daily, was Wendell Willkie, onetime Democrat...
...Shirts, he is well qualified to speak on the subject. In his own words last fall, he stated that his idea of "improving America": was to climinate the Catholics and abolish universal suffrage by organizing a Fascist minority which would achieve its aims by means "other than the ballot box." Now he has given advice to the Transcript on how to "save" America...
...Republican rival in 1937, Clergyman Lester H. Clee, carried 15 of Jersey's 21 counties. But when Hudson's poll was reported, Hague's Moore was found to have won by 45,266 votes. In vain did Pastor Clee charge that the Hudson vote was fraudulent. Ballot boxes were straightway locked up, Hague-controlled election officials and judges refused to let anybody get near them, and Pastor Clee went back to his church. Many an unproved charge has been made of Hudson County: of its floaters, of more registrations than there are eligible voters, of dead...
Democrats. Franklin Roosevelt, willing or no, last week clinched the Democratic nomination on the first ballot...
...almost persuaded a majority of their fellow-citizens to adopt the Plan E form of city government are off to a good start in their 1940 campaign. Volunteer workers, mostly women, have obtained 9000 signatures for their petition, many more than are needed to put the question on the ballot in November...