Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cursory comparison of the list of winners and the original slate of nominations shows a marked parallel between position on the ballot and success in the election, a parallel that dramatizes student apathy toward the Council, and at the same time exposes the weakness of the Council in managing all the interlocking ramifications which go into the administration of a democratic election...
Inhaling deeply after the last pink ballot had been totted up, Miss Irene Tinker, Radcliffe '49, sighed deeply yesterday afternoon and then announced that her foetal magazine was still nameless. The reason, she said, was that Tuesday's balloting was much too close to be decisive...
...selections will be made from a list of 23 Seniors and 13 Juniors whose names along with brief biographical facts appeared in yesterday's CRIMSON and will appear on the back of today's ballot...
...into office when nearly every other name on the party slate is snowed under. Exactly that happened in 1936, when young Henry Cabot Lodge steamrollered one James M. Curley in the Senatorial race while the New Deal was winning 46 states and almost every other Commonwealth office on the ballot...
Similar paradoxes occur repeatedly. The long ballot and a neat system of gerrymandering have resulted in unbroken GOP control of the General Court and the Congressional delegations for twenty years or more. Yet Massachusetts' electoral votes have not been in the Republican column since the Coolidge-Davis race of 1924. Democratic governors won easily from 1920 through 1936, but never had an Executive Council they could call their...