Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago every one of the members of the New York County Medical Society* received a ballot stating : "If under Proposition Four of [Senator Wagner's] . . . National Health Program, money is made available to New York State to provide care for the low-income earning groups, do you favor the delivery of this medical care by means of compulsory health insurance...
Last week when the votes were tallied, society officers found that nearly two-thirds of the 4,800 members ignored the ballot, failed to vote. Final figures: 1,286 against compulsory health insurance, 432 in favor...
...timing of the referendum favored the opponents of the elections. But the Crimson say, "Byrits timing and by its management, it is calculated to stampede Freshmen into approval of the old system." Does the reference to "its management" mean that the Crimson thinks the Council will stuff the ballot...
...fact that the ballot box has been stuffed must not prevent freshmen from standing up and fighting for the abolition of a meaningless form. The present system of elections makes a farce of democracy. The duly elected representatives of the class have absolutely no function but to appoint the chairmen of the Jubilee and the Smoker--something which the Union Committee could do just as well. Hence the election resolves down to a formal recognition of the most prominent freshmen...
...runner-up in the vote for the Class Day Committee was Robert E. Strider, having 186. Others on the ballot were: Hughes Call, 163; John M. Johansen, 158; Bruce Foster, 149; William W. Austin, 136; Edward H. Schoyer, 102; Samuel L. M. Cole, 102; Philip H. Walker, 97; Hunter Hendee, 74; Frank Dunn, Jr. 73. Election Results Secretary Cleveland Amory 151 Robert M. Bunker 142 Richard S. Benner 90 Charles A. Meyer 58 Class Day Committee Clifford W. Wilson 332 Richard P. Hedblom 250 Oliver P. Bolton 248 Edmund L. Cherbonnier 248 Joseph A. Patrick 240 J. Spence Harvin...