Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democratic National Committee. The committee had spent two days in private argument, but members had emitted various soothing off-the-cuff announcements-that the Southern revolt was not serious, that the President's declaration of candidacy had calmed intraparty bickering, that he would be nominated on the first ballot at Philadelphia, and would probably have Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas for a running mate...
Last week in Italy, both sides were concentrating on door-to-door campaigning. The Christian Democratic party, believing that a fourth of anti-Communists failed to vote in the last election, had a slogan: "He who doesn't vote gives his ballot to Italy's enemies...
...Ballot number 1,220 was cast last night in another futile attempt to elect a mayor for Cambridge...
...long list of town officers has been reduced considerably since the days when the people elected a tithingham, herdsman, drummer, and horgreeve. Yet, the voter is still faced with far from a short ballot, for he must choose 16 men to guide the destiny of Calais during 1948--moderator, clerk, selectmen, school directors, auditors, listers, trustees of public funds, cemetery commissioners, overseers of the poor, road commissioner, constable, law agent, grand, juror, health officer, truant officer, and the local old age officer...
When it came time to vote on whether or not Calais should grant licenses "for the sale of malt and vinous beverages" or for "spiritous liquors," the women left their stoves and filed past the ballot box too. They know the men will agree to grant licenses if they don't appear to outvote them. The only time the town voted in favor of selling liquor, no merchant took out a license...