Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edric A. Weld '46, Chairman of the Student Council Summer Committee and a member of Leverett House, was also nominated, but his name was recalled from the ballot when it was decided that it would place him in an embarrassing position...
Ezequiel Padilla finally shook hands with President-elect Miguel Alemán. The fraud charges would be dropped. Even if there had been occasional sleight of hand in the ballot counting, the final result was too conclusive to doubt: Alemán 1,800,829, Padilla...
...Mayor, he charged, had acted arrogantly in the matter of the trolley-fare boost (from 7? to 10?). Thousands of San Franciscans signed. Lapham signed the petition himself-so the proposal could be put on the June 4 primary ballot, thus save the city the expense of a special election. Budde did not gather enough valid signatures in time, but he got them later; a special election was decreed...
Wrote a Saxon Social Democrat: "We are living here as in the days of Hitler. I shall write on my ballot 'What are you trying to put across with this nonsense...
...favor of extending the rationing program to include other food items agreed to by the University Administration, with the understanding that if such an extension receives a two-thirds vote, a second ballot will be taken on particular items...