Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senator J. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, Dixiecrat candidate for President in 1948, was the first man ever to be elected to Congress by write-in votes against an opponent whose name was printed on the ballot. Thurmond stumped as a write-in because he was angry at the South Carolina Democratic Executive Committee for hand-picking a candidate (Edgar Brown) instead of holding a primary. In that campaign Thurmond promised the voters that, if elected, he would resign before the next regular primary to let them do the picking...
Seniors will choose the marshals and member-at-large by preferential ballot from a slate of 44 candidates. Their pictures appear on page...
...poll which Korn intends to distribute through the dining halls will receive an "appearence of impartiality," he said, through its sponsorship by both groups. Korn stated that Senator Estes Kefauver's name could also be added on the ballot if Democrats wanted...
...last week. But as the 600 men who would govern France fumbled to assemble a government, the center of interest was a man with a monkey wrench who wasn't there-Pierre Poujade, with his roughhouse protest movement, his 52 newly-elected Deputies and his 2,400,000 ballot-box followers...
Said a disillusioned young army captain after digesting the news: "We kept the Communists out with our guns and our blood. Now Papandreou wants to let them back in through the ballot...