Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cropping up again as it has annually for the past four years, the moot question of "election or appointment" of officers to run the Freshman class will be resolved once and for all by Yardling ballot on February 20, during lunch and supper in the Union...
...Henry Grady, vice-chairman of the Democratic National Committee, wife of the Assistant Secretary of State, spoke for San Francisco, gesticulated so excitedly when she cried, "I ask you to remember that it was in San Francisco the name of Franklin Roosevelt was first put on the national ballot!", that the feathers on her maroon hat quivered...
Oregon New Dealers last month quickly completed a 1,000-signature petition preliminary to putting Roosevelt on the ballot, May 17. Mr. Roosevelt's friends sent a furtive message last week asking that his name be withdrawn. The Oregon New Dealers told the messenger to go chase himself. Pitted against Roosevelt will be John N. Garner, who was filed by his Oregon manager, a crusty old purgee, ex-Governor Charles Henry Martin. Rather than go out and get the 1,000 signatures, he paid the $100 filing...
...Jersey's Boss Frank Hague was circulating petitions which would put a Third Term list of delegates on the ballot, including James H. R. Cromwell, newly appointed Minister to Canada...
...many flagrant violations of the spirit of the Presidential primary the case of North Carolina in 1920 is best known. The primary chose Hiram Johnson but only one delegate voted for him, even on the first ballot...