Word: ballot
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...assorted lesser officials. The political climate of California is exactly right for an operation such as Whitaker & Baxter's. The state has no real political machine, and California voters have little party loyalty. California's "modern" constitution gives the people the power to initiate legislation by ballot, to pass on acts of the legislature by referendum and to recall elected officeholders by popular vote before their terms have expired. All this puts a high premium on public sentiment and on shifts in it. Whitaker & Baxter, filling the vacuum created by the destruction of old-style party organization...
Results from Dunster House are still incomplete, because only seven out of eight names appeared on the ballot...
Instead of defending its position openly, the U.S. has attempted to coerce support for the Philippines. After the ninth ballot, on October 19, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., moved to postpone the Security Council election and procede to elections for the Economic and Social Council. His tactic was obvious and Russia objected. Yugoslavia was also a candidate for ECOSOC, and according to an unwritten rule, if elected, it could not then serve on the Security Council. Despite objections, however, the Assembly voted, and Yugoslavia was elected with U.S. support. But lined up against the United States were Britain...
Heavy Vote. The question on the ballot: "Shall P.U.D. No. i sell all its electrical transmission, distribution and associated properties to the Washington Water Power Co. for $2,905.000?" Both sides agreed that if the Washington Water Power Co. failed to muster 60% of the voters, it would sell its Stevens County holdings to the P.U.D...
With the NCC's membership equally divided over the merger, President William C. Brady '57, twice cast the deciding ballot. The two presidents, Brady and Kenneth E. Thompson '57 of the HCL, had drawn up the agreement which would merge the two groups...