Word: balloted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boss faced a stiff test; above all things he had to keep Plan E off the ballot-he couldn't take a chance on its slipping by. It not only replaces the Mayor with a council-appointed city manager; it goes on to specify that members of the Council be elected by proportional representation. This means that each citizen would vote on all Council seats, numbering his choices among the candidates in order of preference. Thus the plan wipes out the ward system, the basis for the machine; Curley's power would be sharply narrowed at the bottom, where...
...unified opposition split wide open, with various factions supporting one or another of the plans. Second-and this made the opposition split fatal-the law states that only one plan may be voted on in any single election; that plan getting the required petition signatures first gets on the ballot to the exclusion of all others. Curley made the most of the situation. The battle shaped up between backers of Plan A, supporters of Plan E and a smaller group behind Plan D. The boss, although stating emphatically that he wanted no change, finally put his organization behind Plan...
...split the Plan E backers internally. Finally, officials used a technicality in the law to give petition sheets to Plan A supporters ahead of the others. Plan E people have the case in court now, but regardless of the decision Plan A is almost certain to get on the ballot. Curley's organization has delivered twice the number of necessary signatures once; it can do it again...
Forty-six men are eligible for the posts, Amory Houghton Jr. '50 announced last night. These include the special Nominating Committee' those men nominated by the Committee; and a third group who handed in petitions with 25 signatures in order to have their names placed on the ballot...
Forty-six names have been placed on the ballot, Houghton revealed. These include the special Nominating Committee, made up of representatives from the eight Houses; those men nominated by the Nominating Committee; and an additional group who handed in petitions with 25 signatures in order to be eligible for the ballot...