Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fish had no sooner announced than he ran afoul of New York's nomination-filing law. Purposely rigged against new parties, the law states that a candidate must get five thousand signatures in each of the state's counties to get on the ballot. Fish did fine in New York City, but he had to give up in the wilds of the Adirondack mountain counties, where it is hard enough to find five thousand inhabitants, let alone disgruntled Republicans. In Connecticut, however, Miss Vivian Kellems met the filing requirements and began sniping at both major candidates in her weekly radio...
...invite all who would have an American President to join me in writing on the ballot the name of the man who has had his rightful position as Republican candidate stolen from...
...couple of new parties sputtered and died even before the Harvard Club dinner. One called itself America First, and tried to place on the Illinois ballot electors for Gen. MacArthur and Sen. Harry Byrd. It failed. A Nebraska woman conceived another and tagged it the American Party...
...Compromise. Shivers took the dread word back to Texas and solemnly pronounced Stevenson anathema. A rebel gleam began to shine in the eyes of Texas. But under the loyalty pledge Shivers had accepted, he was committed to do his best to get Stevenson and Sparkman on the Texas ballot. Attorney General Daniel proposed a plan which many other Democratic leaders endorsed: list Stevenson and Sparkman as the "Federal Democratic" candidates, Eisenhower and Nixon as the "Texas Democratic" candidates. That would ease the minds of born & bred Democrats who couldn't bear to step across the party line...
Some shrewd lawyers told Allan Shivers that under Texas law this would be an illegal use of the Democratic label. (The judgment of his legal advisers was confirmed when a district court last week threw out an attempt to get a "Texas Democratic" ticket on the ballot.) Shivers stayed up until 4 a.m. writing his speech to the year's second Democratic state convention, urging it to take the course it eventually took: put Stevenson and Sparkman on the ballot, but work against them...