Word: balloted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Long Ballot...
...bill which he placed before the legislature, he offered all other Southern states a model way in which to count Harry Truman out. The bill would simply keep Harry Truman's name-or that of any other candidate-off the ballot. Instead of voting for President and Vice President, the voter would cast his ballot for the party. Presidential electors would be bound to support the party's nominees -unless a state party convention ordered them to vote for another candidate before they went to the Electoral College. The bill had Senator Harry Byrd's blessing. That...
Only one Southern stalwart came forward to sound a sober warning to the secessionists. He was no warm friend of Harry Truman's. But Florida's Senator Claude Pepper thought Virginia's ballot plan a "brazen scheme," the effect of which would be to give the electoral voting power "to a little group of party bosses...
...Move for Power. But the Southern politicos had other aims besides wanting to keep Harry Truman off the ballot. They wanted to insure their own re-election at home. And they hoped to gather enough power in the party to restore the two-thirds rule at their national convention-a rule which for 100 years had given them a virtual veto power over presidential candidates...
Psychiatrists conclude that he fled Germany because he felt his isolation from his fellow Nazis growing. But plain citizens will get little help from this book in spotting psychopaths who may become leaders. Even in countries where there are still ballot boxes, political candidates do not yet throw their psychiatric case histories into the ring along with their hats...