Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been included because all the village insisted she must have land. "She works like a man," they said. She had many children, so she was entitled to draw two lots. A great shout rose from the crowd over her first drawing: Maestria lot No. 7. On the second ballot she again drew a good lot. Someone at the back of the crowd cried: "Luck knows whom to help. Luck is always right...
...most previous University graduations. Passing over such men as atomic physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, and author Walter D. Edmonds, the nominating committee of the Class of 1926 has chosen six busimen, active in their own Class' affairs, to be voted on by the other members in an advisory ballot...
Pratt said that the names of the men on the ballot are: LeBaron R. Barker, Jr, executive director of Doubleday & company; Charles L. Harding, Jr., textiles; Joseph W. Lund, real estate; Robert P. MacFadden, assistant vice-president of the National City Bank of New York; Stanley D. Osborne, chemical manufacturing; and H. Irving Pratt, investments...
...This election," said Amory last night, "will probably force the conscientious voter to split his ballot. There are policies to be considered, and there are also personalities to be considered...
This year's ballot will contain some of the familiar questions upon which state residents have been voting for years. Number six would decide the legality of horse and dog racing. Seven includes three questions: the prohibition of hard liquor, wine and beer, and package store sales. This question affects only the voter's own community...