Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Commissioner of Labor Reports-with subpoena powers-to be appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The commissioner would see to it that unions file annual financial reports and at least once every four years certify that their locals have held elections by secret ballot. Secret balloting would be required by law for national union officials or for the delegates to national electing conventions. Embezzlement of union funds, false statements or entries and the willful destruction of union records would become a felony. Also a felony for any employer or union representative: to offer or receive a payoff...
...fight for it. His chief adversary: Paul Martin, 54, former Minister of Health and Welfare and a principal architect of Canada's extensive social security system. But in the end Pearson's international reputation, easily transferred into prestige at home, carried him to a comfortable first-ballot victory. He takes over the party controls this week from Louis St. Laurent, 75, Prime Minister for nine years until last summer's election, who retired to make way for a younger...
...Comtesse de Pange and onetime Actress Judith Cladel, 86. But the Simone forces seemed stronger; among others, the Red leader had lined up antediluvian Prix Fighter Saint-René Taillandier, Novelist Jeanne Galzy and Germaine Beaumont, a jury sitter of indeterminate vintage ("Age is fiction"). The week before the balloting, three lined-up Simone voters came down with the grippe. In silence, at the deciding luncheon, the embattled ladies spooned their bombe glacée. When the voting began, the committee was deadlocked, but under pressure from Madame Simone, one Blue member began to abstain. Snarled another Blue: "My poor...
...mayor made the grade on the first ballot after C.C.A.-endorsed Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 made a speech changing from abstention to a vote for McNamara. At this point, there were four abstentions, two votes for McNamara, two vote for ex-Mayor Edward J. Sullivan, and one vote for Councilor Charles A. Watson...
Another likely candidate for mayor is Councilor Thomas McNamara, who has received the pledge of Al Vellucci's vote on the first ballot. In the 1956 elections, McNamara abstained for two weeks before casting the fifth and deciding ballot for Sullivan...