Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another probable error urged by many critics was that Digest ballots went to telephone subscribers and automobile owners, who necessarily do not include many unemployed, many women, many young people lately come of voting age-all groups presumably strong for the New Deal (see col. 3). To this the Digest answered that its ballot was taken just as in 1932. when the election of Roosevelt was predicted with an error of less than...
Traditionally the Conservatives headed by Stanley Baldwin are the Party in the United Kingdom least sympathetic to the League of Nations. A nationwide peace ballot proved last summer that at least 11,000,000 British voters are highly sympathetic to the League. When as Prime Minister it became Stanley Baldwin's object to win the General Election, his outstanding campaign move was to convince the electorate that the Baldwin Cabinet and the Conservative Party had become highly sympathetic to the League. They had not only become highly sympathetic, but they also gave the further impression that if they...
...president, Learned Hand '93; two vice-president, David Cheever '97, and Harrison Tweed '07; and a secretary-treasurer, Clark, govern the Association. The board of Directors consists of 15 men, six apopinted from the faculty and larger Harvard Clubs, and nine elected by postal ballot...
...Francisco's Superior Court last week Charlotte Anita Whitney, 68-year-old daughter of a onetime State Senator and niece of a U. S. Supreme Court Justice appointed by Abraham Lincoln, was convicted of "false swearing" to signatures on Communist petitions for a place on the ballot, faced a possible sentence of six years in prison...
...Senator George Wharton Pepper. A stanch Republican, a devout Episcopalian whose portly figure is as familiar in Philadelphia as the facade of Independence Hall, Lawyer Pepper set a U. S. record for per-vote campaign expenditures when he ran unsuccessfully for re-election in 1926 ($2.42 per Bepper ballot...