Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workers which had started all the trouble did not. Employers agreed to arbitrate all grievances with longshoremen and marine strikers. The National Longshoremen's Board headed by Archbishop Hanna proposed that the striking longshoremen, not only of San Francisco but of the whole Pacific Coast, vote by secret ballot on whether to accept arbitration. Harry Bridges, radical Australian strike leader, opposed the vote but he was overruled and the strikers went to the polls to decide the issue...
...union representation. Sooner or later it was evident that Miss Perkins was going to sit down with the steelmasters of the U. S.-Grace of Bethlehem, Taylor of U. S. Steel, Weir of Weirton, Girdler of Republic-and try her prowess as a labor peacemaker. Although a secret ballot of U. S. Steel's employes last week showed, according to Iron Age, that 95% of the company's employes opposed a strike, the bloodiness of all past steel strikes made the threat of such a walk-out still one of the most grievous prospects for the Administration...
...Prague Castle's gothic, spidery Ladislaus Hall last week the 420 Deputies and Senators of Czechoslovakia's parliament met to elect a President by secret ballot. The secrecy was unnecessary because all the world knew what the result would be. For the fourth successive time gentle white-chinned Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, first and only President of Czechoslovakia, was overwhelmingly elected. Today President Masaryk is 84; if he lives out his fourth term he will...
...electing a moderator, in dealing with their "Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions," and this week were expected to trounce them in voting a merger with the United Presbyterian Church. Out of a field of three, Dr. William Chalmers Covert of Philadelphia was elected moderator on the second ballot. A conservative, he has specialized in religious education, is to retire at 70 this year from the secretaryship of the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education which he assumed a decade ago. When William Covert was born on an Indiana farm, his 93-year-old grandfather carried him to a window, peered...
...thing the Stavisky investigations have done is to uncover the hideous corruption of Marseilles' local politics. Ballot boxes are regularly stuffed with names from undertakers' lists. The city is as gangster-ridden as Chicago. Its Capone, a sly ruffian named Paul Carbone, alias Venture, was arrested and accused of complicity in the Dijon murder of Judge Albert Prince. Boss of Marseilles is a one-eyed Corsican Deputy named Simon Sabiani-just Simon to most of Marseilles...