Word: ballot
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...Germans (98.6% of the electorate) were paraded to the polls to answer a loaded question: "Are you for a peace treaty and removal of occupation troops or for EDC and letting occupation troops stay on for 50 years?" Just in case anyone wondered which of two circles on the ballot was the proper one to mark, huge banners at most voting places read: "Every German votes for the peace treaty." The results: 93½% for a Communist-bestowed peace treaty and against...
...years primary elections in California have been colossal exercises in political confusion. Under a cross-filing law adopted in 1913, Republicans and Democrats filed freely in each other's primaries, and the voters could never tell from the ballot which candidate came from what party. As a result, many a candidate said as little as possible about his party affiliation, and won both sides of the primary. Last week Californians went to the polls under a new primary law and set a different pattern...
...figures were not clear cause for Democratic jubilance. Republicans generally did far better on the Democratic ballot than Democrats did on the G.O.P. ticket, and the Republicans' total two-party vote was substantially higher. For governor, the count was: on the Republican ticket, well-known Republican Knight 1,083,733, little-known Democrat Richard Graves 104,683; on the Democratic ticket, Graves 791,777, Knight 667,375. The primary results indicated that the dual primary victories will become a rarity, but they did not show that the G.O.P. was losing its grip in California. Best proof: Knight...
Such Republican precision contrasted sharply with the hectic Democratic convention at Worcester the week before. It took the Democrats twelve hours and five ballots to nominate State Representative Robert F. Murphy for governor. For Senator they took only one ballot to endorse State Treasurer Foster Furcolo, who carried two distinctions: 1) a onetime favorite of Americans for Democratic Action, he had repudiated A.D.A.; and 2) although his mother came from Ireland, his Italian name violated the Massachusetts Democratic orthodoxy that senatorial candidates should have an Irish name...
...time the Advertiser railed over Act 907 which denies the ballot to communists and to members of a communist front organization. This act also provided that communists must be fingerprinted by the Department of Public Safety and to turn in to the police the names of all others who think as they...