Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Epilogue: slick, fashionable Portraitist Jean-Gabriel Domergue, who perpetrated the hoax, asked the public to guess, by ballot, which and what the jokers were. Only one voter found the Cassatt, no one spotted the Whistler...
...Lampe describes himself as "the common garden variety Presbyterian preacher," and on most issues is a middle-of-the-roader. But after his election (on the second ballot), he made it clear that he saw eye to eye with his predecessor. Dr. Roy Ewing Vale, when it came to Roman Catholics in politics. "We are not fighting the Roman Catholics," said he, "but we have always fought for our liberties, and we will continue...
...first time in its ten-year history, the New York Drama Critics' Circle last week chose the season's best American play on the first ballot. The choice, Tennessee Williams' touching picture of a troubled family, The Glass Menagerie (TIME, April 9), easily met the majority requirement with nine out of 14 votes...
These were the normal, every-year matters of New Hampshire living. But this year, as never before, the sights of New Hampshiremen were set on wider horizons. At the bottom of every ballot in every town was a searching question: "To see if the town will vote to support United States membership in a general system of international cooperation, such as that proposed at the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, having police power to maintain the peace of the world...
...Unions have used the strike ballot to try to force favorable and quicker decisions from Government agencies...