Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question of PR, which was placed on the ballot and publicized by the Sullivan forces largely to draw attention from the first referendum, the vote was 18,000 to 13,000 in favor of retaining this system of balloting...
Last week, six councilors registered their disapproval of the 17 controversial School Committee appointments, the other referendum question on this year's ballot. Mayor Eddie Sullivan cast the only dissenting vote, and two councilors abstained...
...counteract the CCA-inspired referendum, the Mayor, through the efforts of State Senator Francis X. McCann, has managed to put an anti-proportional representation referendum on the ballot. By getting a "yes" vote on this question, the Mayor hopes to win the school appointments referendum at the same time. The CCA, relying as it does on proportional representation to elect its candidates, hopes to turn its "no" votes on the school question into a defeat of the anti-PR referendum...
...others on the ballot are mainly Irish or Italian; most are veterans, few have not served as pillars of their church; and they are almost unanimously family men. Al Vellucci probably holds the record with eight children--two in the Coast Guard. A fairly typical candidate is Joseph Lund, one of the newcomers. At a candidates' rally recently he described his activities as founder of three drum and bugle corps, an usher at St. Mary's for "the past 15 years," and a fighter for veterans' rights. Lund charged that Cambridge veterans were getting a "raw deal" on their ratings...
...right-to-work platform as well as a seven-point scheme for tightening of federal labor laws. Although he plans no federal right-to-work statute, Knowland's federal proposals are aimed at other specifics, e.g., restrictions on uses of union funds, guarantee of a secret ballot in union elections and strike votes...