Word: balloter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basis of excited statements last fortnight by the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee (TIME, Aug. 8)-the knockdown, drag-out fight in Tennessee between the team of Senator George L. Berry & Governor Gordon Browning and the team of Senator Kenneth D. McKellar & Boss Ed Crump of Memphis. Coercion of WPAsters, ballot-box stuffing, martial law, shootings, sluggings, kidnappings and general mayhem were anticipated when Chairman Sheppard of the Committee rushed extra agents into Tennessee and announced that whoever won this Senate race would probably have his seat challenged on the floor of the Senate...
Primary outlet for California's civic cranks and crazes is the "initiative" provision of the State's constitution. Under it 8% of California's registered electorate (this year 186,378 voters) can, by signing a petition, place a bill on the ballot to be enacted if a majority of voters approve...
...week as thousands of weary doorbell-ringing crusaders put away their pencils, it appeared that 60 petitions (including four referenda for the repeal of existing laws) had squeaked under the deadline for filing. If sufficient numbers of their signatures are verified from voting lists, they will appear on the ballot, November...
...John Citizen." Pierce Atwater, executive secretary of St. Paul's Community Chest, declared: "We have allowed our system of public welfare administration to grow far too detached from the body of the citizenship who pay the bills and who drop their verdict into the ballot box." He urged that "the John Citizens of America" be put on relief boards, to leaven professional social workers and politicians...
...expected, Candidate Benson ran far ahead in city precincts, Candidate Petersen led in the schoolhouse vote. After two days of seesaw ballot-counting, Benson finally overtook Petersen for good, squeaked through, 215,000 to 202,000. The total Farmer-Labor primary vote was by far the highest in its history, more than the 253,000 Republican and 81,000 Democratic votes put together. So Laborite Benson's forces inferred that Farmerite Petersen had recruited much of his support from Republican and Democratic conservatives. This claim was supported by the fact that conservative Republican Martin Nelson, twice his party...