Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said the listing of the woman's occupation. After her husband's name, the record read:"President of the United States."' Under the light of four naked electric light bulbs, by the heat of a small oil stove, the President of the U.S. marked his ballot in the election of 1956. It took him just 45 seconds. For Mamie Eisenhower, the process was somewhat longer. She popped out of the booth to ask if one X would take care of the whole ticket. Assured that it would, she marked her ballot, and said: "Fine, that takes care...
Trail's End. But now it was over. Now the long years since the first defeat, the raucous primary fight with Estes Kefauver. the glittering first-ballot victory which brought him his party's nomination at Chicago (and marked, perhaps, the pinnacle of his political career), the frustrating campaign itself-all these were behind...
...political future, he said nothing. There was no need. The answers, as far as Adlai Stevenson was concerned, had already been written that day in the ballot...
...these theorizings about the personnel in a Stevenson Administration are not very meaningful, particularly in view of the pollsters' predictions. But taken with an appreciation of the subtleties and objectives of the Stevenson program, they are a good indication of the man and the party that appear on the ballot today. For the wise selection of a President should involve an acceptance of the candidate's policies and his advisers, as well as an endorsement of his personality...
That, for all practical purposes, will be the campaign. On Election Day Adlai Stevenson will cast his own ballot in his home town of Libertyville, Ill., then retire to his farm to await the judgment of his fellow citizens...