Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alec B. Dawson '59 beat out David F. Peterson '60 by one vote to win the presidency of the Harvard Young Republican Club last night amid charges of ballot-stuffing...
Partly because jittery officials laid on heavy security guards that kept crowds from gathering, Syria's salute to its extinction seemed more subdued. But citizens voted heavily-twice as many cast ballots as in any previous election. They also voted publicly, and one NBC cameraman photographed the same voter marking four different ballots before stuffing them in the ballot box in a Damascus mosque. By official count, only 386 of more than 7,400,000 who voted in the two countries cast ballots against union. Only 452 said no to Nasser as the United Arab Republic's chief...
...party that ground on for eleven hours, Todd's critics put their case: in the elections scheduled later this year, Todd would be a liability in the battle against the white-supremacy Dominion Party. For 1½ hours Todd spoke in his own defense, and on the first ballot to determine a party leader, Todd topped the poll. The leader of the reactionary faction, Sir Patrick Fletcher, was eliminated from the race. But on the next ballot Todd mustered only 129 votes to 193 for a compromise candidate, Sir Edgar Whitehead, 53, the Federation's minister in Washington...
...week from the quarreling heirs of left-of-center President José ("Don Pepe") Figueres. A tall, balding, eloquent man, who has promised to bring private capital back into such state-dominated fields as banking, power production and housing, Echandi triumphed in an election notably free of bloodshed or ballot juggling. His National Union Party, backed by two former Presidents, polled 103,326 votes. Figueres' chosen successor, Francisco Orlich, a former Public Works Minister, drew 97,102 votes, and Jorge Rossi, a maverick from the Figuerista ranks...
...Absentee Ballot. In Waukesha, Wis., the first prize in a drawing-a one-week plane trip to Florida for two-was won by City Assessor Thomas S. Kilpatrick, who had left the day before for Florida...