Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rolf Kaltenborn '37 has been elected President of Phillips Brooks House for 1936-37 as the result of a mail ballot counted during the vacation. At the same time William H. Schmidt '37 was named vice-president, while John B. Bowditch '37 becomes secretary-treasurer...
Much as he would like the Democratic Presidential nomination for himself, much as he dislikes the New Deal, Georgia's Governor Eugene Talmadge has no stomach as yet for a tilt with Franklin Roosevelt at Georgia's ballot boxes. Dismayed, therefore, was "Gene" Talmadge fortnight ago when Seminole County Democrats took matters in their own hands, held a Presidential preference primary, plumped 5-to-1 for Roosevelt. Last week Harris County followed suit 27-to-1. Belatedly, Governor Talmadge got Barrow County to postpone its primary while the Talmadge-dominated Democratic State Committee tried to figure some...
...unique "effort to save Manchester [N. H.] from disaster," a ballot was taken there last week to see whether workers would agree to a 15% wage cut and "permanent peaceful operations" of the huge textile mills of Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., the city's biggest industry, normally employing one-seventh of its total population (76,834). Amoskeag closed its mills last September, is now in 776 reorganization, admittedly faces possible liquidation because it cannot compete with low-wage Southern textile mills. No less than 3,669 of Amoskeag's workless workers (a slim majority of those voting) accepted...
...Kentucky, tired of claims of dishonest election counts by precinct officials, passed a law requiring that four padlocks be placed on all ballot boxes, that the boxes be carried to county seats and counted there by county election boards on the day following the election. In 1932 that 24-hour delay did not keep anyone in the U. S. from knowing that Franklin D. Roosevelt had been overwhelmingly elected President of the U. S. the day before...
...this was the more shocking because a study of the election returns, when all ballots had been finally counted, forced Madrid correspondents to cable that the election was a draw. Spanish party coalition lines are so loosely drawn that, although the "Left" appeared to have won 253 seats, and the "Right" 220, there was no assurance that a vote of confidence could be won by the bilious Left Republican who suddenly found himself again Premier, sickly-green-complexioned Don Manuel Azaña. The President of the Republic, uneasy old Don Niceto Alcála Zamora...