Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CRIMSON's, traditional straw vote on presidential candidates begins throughout the University today. Ballots and ballot boxes will be placed in the House, dining halls, the Union, Dudley Hall, Cowie Hall, the Agassiz Hall mailboxes, and the Graduate dining hall...
Texas is another fascinating instance of a South that is "solid" like a hole in the head. In the Democratic primaries, Lyndon Johnson squeaked by former Governor Coke Stevenson. Stevenson promptly yelled "fraud," but his efforts to have Johnson's name lopped off the ballot were foiled by the U.S. Supreme Court. The former Governor then switched his support to the Republican, Porter, and he has undoubtedly taken a passel of old-line Democrats across the tracks with him. This "treachery," plus Democratic uneasiness over the President's civil rights program and the attractions of a straight Republican ticket, makes...
...Harvard Teachers Union (AFL) voted unanimous support last week to the campaign to defeat "anti-labor" referenda 5, 6, and 7 on the Massachusetts ballot. The proposed bills would ban the union shop, require a majority union vote before striking, and call for annual election of union officers...
Your editorial on the Massachusetts labor referenda reflects clear and honestly objective thought, but I feel you have missed the real implications of referendum no. 6. Those of us who are against this proposition do not base our opposition to a required secret ballot strike vote upon the vague charge that a union may be deprived of its strike weapon through apathy of its membership, but on the more solid ground that such a provision has been tried before in federal legislation and has failed...
Massachusetts voters will determine the fate of the so-called 'anti-labor' measures on the ballot next November 2. The referenda call for abolition of the union and maintenance-of-membership shops, annual election of union officials, and new regulations for strike-voting...