Word: balloted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concentrating its operations this fall chiefly against the three "anti-labor" referenda, on the Massachusetts ballot, figuring that pressure there will be more useful than it would be for any local candidate...
Beyond that, a campaign was the one way to whip up the faithful party workers, charged with bringing out the party vote. It was a way to stir up interest among the bored and doubtful, to translate votes on a poll into votes in the ballot box. Above all, it was the great chance for any politician to get out where he could see and be seen, where he could make friends and influence voters, where he could work his political pitch at the grassroots level...
...people, in which they swore that Stevenson's men had intimidated them into making their charges. The committee voted, 29 to 28, to include the protested votes and certify Johnson as the winner. Coke Stevenson stalked out, started legal moves to keep Johnson's name off the ballot. He threatened to take his fraud charges to the U.S. Senate to prevent Johnson from being seated...
...first time since the rebel raids began, the Democratic National Committee sputtered with wrath. Said a headquarters statement: "A small clique of men who have assumed dictatorial powers . . . has deprived the people of Louisiana of a free ballot ... a high-handed and arbitrary act which will not go unchallenged...
...could help being a Communist." But he glibly disavows Communism in the U.S. on the grounds that "it has made hardly any progress." (His compromise is the shrill and not unexpected determination "to vote for Wallace, even if I had to write in his name on the ballot.") And with the kind of disingenuousness that would have appalled another of his heroes, Psychologist William James, Author Matthiessen insists that he cannot become a Marxist because "I am a Christian, not through upbringing but by conviction...