Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taken their seats.* Senator Barkley, as Acting Leader, rapped lor order. Turning the gavel over to Senator Pittman, President Pro-temp of the Senate, Candidate Barkley took his seat with the others. The chairman appointed McKellar (a Barkley man) and Russell (for Harrison) to count the ballots. Senator Black, secretary of the majority conference, prepared to write them down. Carter Glass, oldest man in the Senate, offered his battered Panama for a ballot box. prompting New Jersey's Smarty Smathers, three months a Senator, to crack about secret ballots in a glass...
...Harrison, and the Senator from Kentucky, Mr. Barkley, as candidates." Seventy-four Senators snickered at this bit of superfluity. Chairman Pittman sang, "Without objection it is so ordered,'' and the voters resumed their trips to the table, one by one, until Burt Wheeler gingerly cast the last ballot. Senator Pittman banged his gavel: "The judges will count the votes." There were 75. "The judges will read the ballots...
...Barkley," shouted Judge Russell, as he drew out the first slip. "Harrison," barked Judge McKellar on the second. "Harrison."' "Harrison." "Harrison." "Harrison." "Barkley." "Barkley." "Harrison." "Barkley." Seesaw. Seesaw. When the vote reached 37-37 there was a pause and a dead silence. The final ballot looked "big as a quilt" to Candidate Barkley, who bit off his pipestem...
...motions of starting a cleanup. Then & there the current overlord of Tammany, Boss John Curry, made a mistake. Instead of nominating McKee for a special election to fill Walker's place, he chose a Tammany wheelhorse, Surrogate Judge John P. O'Brien, and maneuvered McKee off the ballot. O'Brien was elected but 125,000 angry citizens wrote in McKee's name on the ballot. Next year at the regular election, Tammany backed O'Brien again. Jim Farley, with whom Tammany had been on the outs since Walker's trial, arranged a Recovery ticket...
...President Cárdenas. Thundered Social Democrat Leader Judge Prieto Laurens: "The official party as usual used every means to assure its triumph. . . . A majority of the voting booths were placed in homes of Government party leaders and a mere 10% of the eligible voters was allowed to ballot...