Word: balloter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dance at Radcliffe, will start the series at Agassiz Theatre with a lecture entitled "Towards Understanding the Dance." Then come talks on various phases of dancing illustrated by Radcliffe girls, for the double purpose of educating the dance audience and interesting Harvard men in actively taking part in ballot...
Tailing the ballot during the early returns, Maguire's nomination was in doubt until the last votes had been counted. Maguire is a strong exponent of Plan E and is in favor of closer cooperation between the University and the city government. "If Cambridge were run from Littauer Center, it couldn't be in worse condition," he once stated...
That the U. S. people in principle oppose third terms for their Presidents is a cliche so long accepted as to be a maxim, although it has never been tested by ballot. It now has a special meaning: a candidate for a second reelection, potential or declared, cannot be a good President in crisis; he may even use the crisis to forward his ambitions...
...Florida the law says that a political party must poll at least 15% of votes cast in general elections to keep its place on the ballot at the next election. Two years ago the required figure was 30%, but the Legislature lowered it for the benefit of the Republican Party. Last week Florida's Legislature acted again, cut the figure to 5% for the vestigial...
...partitioning the big estates, what to do with Hungary's Jews, Premier Count Paul Teleki last week asked Hungarians to vote confidence in his foreign policy of close but wary association with the Axis by keeping his Government Party in power. In Hungary's first secret ballot since 1920 they did. Result: for the Government Party 180 out of 260 seats. But this Hungarian rhapsody ended when returns showed that the five Hungarian Nazi parties had increased their seats from 14 to 39 and their total popular vote was 21% as compared to the Government...