Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Virginia had got a vaccination against the infection they feared. In Norfolk (pop. 314,600), where 10,000 pupils are still locked out, voters decided 12,333 to 8,781 against petitioning Almond to return their schools to local control, thus let them open integrated. Printed on the ballot was a warning to those who might favor integration over no schools at all: city operation of integrated schools would call for "substantial tuition...
Jack Kennedy is the early-season Demo cratic favorite by general agreement. Says an aide to Michigan's hopeful "Soapy" Williams: "If the convention were held today. Kennedy would win on the first ballot, period." Kennedy has New Eng land's loo-plus delegate votes virtually sewed up, stands well in a dozen Mid western and Western states and has sur prising strength in the South. "Kennedy is sober and temperate on civil rights." says Mississippi's Governor J. P. Coleman. "He's no hell raiser or Barnburner." Kennedy came out of nowhere in 1956 with...
Curley was 25 when the Irish elected him to Boston's common council. At 27. marshaling more toughs than the opposition and able to steal more ballot boxes, he was boss of Ward 17. At 40, after roasting Brahmin ''Goo-Goos" of the Good Government Association, he was mayor. And at 60. after Curleyites burned enough crosses to provide a background for Cur ley oratory against the K.K.K. and prejudice, big (6 ft.. 200 Ibs.) Jim Curley was elected Governor. In addition, he served four terms in Congress, was jailed twice for fraud, was once ordered...
...find Harvard an unparalled source of humor and self-advancement in Ward 17. He had long admired the well-oiled machine of New York's Tammany Hall, which, in a modest way, his own Roxbury Tammany Club recreated. Partly because many of his constituents could not yet read a ballot, Curley made a more educational enterprise of his club. He invited speakers from outside the ward. Whatever the topic, he assured them all of an intelligent and sympathetic audience. Thus their dual function was to provide the ward with entertainment as well as enlightenment. Such was the speaker, an opponent...
Missouri's Stuart Symington. Running hard for prestige purposes against weak opposition, he bettered his 1952 showing, won a 375,000 plurality to establish a Missouri off-year record. Symington's advantage: he is No. 2 on nearly every list, presumably would pick up strong second-ballot support...