Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Progressive Party almost died of neglect last week in its own stronghold, Wisconsin. In a state-wide primary, it barely got enough votes (about 28,000) to remain on the ballot.* The once lusty voice of the LaFollettes, loud enough to be heard across the nation in 1924-when "Old Bob" pulled 5,000,000 votes for President-had become afeeble whisper. This news overshadowed the fact that Republicans had won an impressive 75% of the state vote...
...Cotton Ed up & down the state (as required by South Carolina custom) Governor Johnston boasted of how he had changed the state's laws to keep Negroes from voting. Said he: "Had it not been for my action, tomorrow you would be walking along with Negroes to the ballot box. I am not . . . in favor of social or political equality of the white and black races. I believe in action, and not mere words." Bull-necked Governor Johnston, 47, is a tough, chunky six-footer, a "linthead" (he worked in cotton mills as a boy), and was a front...
Nominated on a ballot of 26 names by the present Council and its nominating committee, these men will join former members still in good standing here, the majority of whom were elected on April 4. Both the polling and tabulation of Friday's elections were directed by Paul G. Garrity for '46 and Hugo Francke for '47, and the voting was held in the House dining halls...
...above all this, P.A.C. showed that it could control almost half of the Democratic Party. Without P.A.C., Henry Wallace would hardly have won one vote; with P.A.C., his highest total on Ballot ii climbed...
P.A.C. had charged that Governor Dewey deliberately made it difficult, even impossible, for New York members of the Armed Forces to vote by refusing to ap prove the Federal War Ballot. In reply Tom Dewey hammered two points: 1) the Federal War Ballot, which provides a place to vote only for the President, Vice President and members of Congress, would not be valid in New York because the State Constitution specifies that every candidate running must be listed; 2) it is easy for a soldier to vote under the Dewey-sponsored law. Federal law requires that each soldier & sailor shall...