Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dollfuss, at the head of the regular army and his private Heimwehr, ruled by decree. But in the last year the Austrians have twice turned to revolution and murder in an effort to express opinions which they were not permitted to express by ballot. Their peaceful opposition outlawed, their active revolt was suppressed by machine guns and the gallows...
Though the Law does not hold the felony of a husband against his wife, the Church holds them of one flesh. Practical politics adds that they are also of one brain and therefore interchangeable upon a ballot...
Ousted by the State Supreme Court from the Governorship because of his conviction, Mr. Langer found that his opponents were going to court to have him debarred as a "convict," from the ballot in November. Ten years ago Texas gave the country a neat political trick whereby such legal difficulties could be sidestepped and the Governorship kept in the family. First to use it was James Ferguson who, following his impeachment and removal from office, put up his wife Miriam ("Ma") in his stead. Last week Mr. Langer decided to follow this pattern when he resigned his nomination...
...June President John E. Bassill, ex-top sergeant of Marines, had a questionnaire in the form of a secret ballot mailed to his 1,858 Hopewell employes. Of the 1,074 who returned the blanks only 140 favored a strike and 839 declared they were not union members. Ten days later the "strike" broke, on the ground that 13 union members had been discharged. But it was less a walk-out than a force-out. At 4 a. m. strikers scaled the yard fences, raided the plant, drove the night shift out with hardly a moment's grace to stop...
With the San Francisco general strike out of the way, the National Longshoremen's Board headed by Archbishop Hanna last week got down to its original business?settling the Longshoremen's strike. Its emissaries flew packages of ballots to Seattle, Portland, San Pedro and a dozen lesser ports, stood by supervising an election of the International Longshoremen's Association on the question of whether the union would agree to let the Board arbitrate the issues of the strike. Then the emissaries posted back by plane carrying the sealed ballot boxes...