Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before embarking officially upon any campaign of eugenics, sterilization and birth control, may we suggest that upon a ballot be placed the names of the leading thinkers who will decide who shall and who shall not have off-spring? It is just barely possible that somebody who Dr. Glueck might believe should not have children, might himself by just low-down and ornery enough to think that Dr. Glueck should not reproduce. And we know too much that is good about Dr. Glueck to agree to any such proposal. --Boston Traveler
...small orchardists and laborers regard him as a silk stocking. With an editorial entitled "TIME TO WAKE UP," Editor Ruhl called upon his readers to "prevent armed rebellion and bloodshed under Llewellyn A. Banks-the John Brown of the Depression." The climax occurred when the courthouse was sacked and ballot boxes stolen. Constable Prescott was sent to Banks's house to arrest him. Banks, who had loudly declared he would never be taken alive, took down his hunting rifle and drilled Constable Prescott through the heart. Thoroughly frightened, the law-abiding populace rallied around Editor Ruhl and his Mail...
...Club to introduce a bill conferring the rights of man upon the pudding Sophomore, we are reminded by previous experience of the beatific results we might anticipate from the innovation. At Amherst, so the story runs, until the turn of the century the undergraduate enjoyed the privilege of the ballot with unusually beneficial results. Being in a majority at the town meetings, the direction of affairs lay pretty much in their hands, and they led the good townspeople a merry dance through their control of the local treasury...
...Official Ballot will be printed in an early issue of Collegiate Digest, Watch for it. You can't unless you clip out the ballot...
...polling booth ruffian. When the votes were counted, Camillien had been elected by a 36,000-vote plurality, and a 52,000 majority over his nearest opponent, the biggest ever seen in Montreal. His defeated Liberal opponent complained. "The Houdeist forces had prepared a widespread telegraphing [dummy-voting] and ballot-stuffing machine that worked to perfection. The old gang is back." Mayor-elect Houde's first move was to let it be known that he plans to form a new Conservative party of his own to be called the National Autonomist Party "to protect the interests of cities...