Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard Student Union will distribute blanks for the nation-wide Peace Ballot, sponsored by the "Yanks are Not Coming" Committee, on Saturday...
WASHINGTON--Chairman Hatton W. Sumners, D., Tex., of the House Judiciary Committee, today denounced amendments to the Hatch "Clean Politics" Act as a step toward dictatorship, after his group had voted to reconsider the legislation which it previously had shelved by secret ballot...
...became convinced that the New Deal was a gigantic political scheme to raze U. S. business to a dead level and debase the citizenry into a mass of ballot-casting serfs. In this conviction he is deadly serious. He regards the New Dealers as brigands & thugs, intent on robbing U. S. voters of their precious heritage of independence, on stifling free enterprise -a band of evil men masquerading as humanitarians. If by some evil chance Roosevelt should be re-elected in 1940, it will mean, he thinks, the end of the road, the death of the American way. When...
...interrupted Thomas Edmund Dewey's second swing through the West last week. He holed up at Colorado Springs, where in the heady mountain air his entourage put out claims that he will have enough G. O. P. convention votes to nominate him for President on the first ballot. Democrat Jim Farley swigged tomato juice (his strongest tope) at a succession of Manhattan cocktail parties, let "friends" announce to the press that he also has first-ballot prospects (if Franklin Roosevelt does not run). Paul McNutt paraded through Guthrie, Okla., in a ten-gallon hat. Georgia Democrats swiped the State...
While a large number of chapters did not vote in the controversy, the ballot represents a cross-section of Student Union opinion throughout the country, with only the New England States in agreement with Harvard about the need for condemnation. Student Union leaders at Harvard regret that Harvard finds itself thus in the minority in such a controversy, but caution about "crying out against the Student Union before considering the facts...