Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clucked over the guests and shooed them toward cocktails, Wisconsin cheese and steaming sausages. Influential G.O.P. men were ushered into an inner sanctum, urged to jump on the bandwagon while there was still time, and assured that Taft was a cinch to win the Republican nomination on the first ballot...
Some "spontaneous" movements have already sprung up in other states. In Virginia and Arizona, Kefauver clubs are organized. In California and Oregon, steps have been taken to put his name on the primary ballot. At a Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Seattle last month, Northwest Democrats cheered when his handsome red-haired wife Nancy was introduced as "the first lady of Tennessee who might one day be the First Lady of Washington...
KENTUCKY-20. Taftmen claim the entire delegation. TIME'S correspondent at Louisville gives Taft 15 on the first ballot...
Deadlock. By the time balloting came, the U.S. was still trying hectically to piece together what Moscow likes to call the "Americans' automatic majority." But it could not. On the first ballot, Greece got 30 votes, considerably short of the required two-thirds majority, to Byelorussia's 26. Seven ballots later, Byelorussia was ahead, 32 to 27, and the deadlock remained. "In these circumstances," intoned the acting Assembly President, Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb, "we should postpone the election in order to give us all time for reflection...
...campaign could so handily derail the government machine. But such diverse groups as university students, Indian market women, landowners and small businessmen have been increasingly mortified at their country's Red-splashed reputation. These anti-Communist groups, uniting to vote for Lizarralde, handed the government the first significant ballot-box rejection of its leftward trend since 1948. "In the capital, even the cobblestones are anti-Communist," explained Lizarralde. "I consider my victory a great triumph for democracy...