Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...child-like in its simplicity. That all the wealthy people in California would allow themselves to be peacefully legislated out of their property in a few months presumes just a bit too much on the softening influence of California sunshine. Sinclair's name may appear on the Democratic ballot in the primaries this August, but no doubt Harry Chandler and William Randolph Hearst will find means to ensure his getting no more than the fifty thousand votes he has been accustomed to win as a perennial Socialist candidate. It really is unfortunate, too, for an attempt to work...
Huey Long had hundreds of his opponents' voters scratched from the ballot lists...
Forty minutes were devoted to the loudest and most frenzied cheering the Dictator has ever received in the Chamber. When the Corporative State law was proposed, the whole Chamber leaped up to adopt it by acclaim. Il Duce stilled the pandemonium, insisted on a vote, cast the first ballot himself. The count, presumably unanimous, was not mentioned in dispatches...
...following are the group from which the five vacancies will be filled by a postal ballot to all graduates this spring: Albert F. Bigelow '03, of Brookline, lawyer, and Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the Massachusetts State Legislature; James M. Morton, Jr. '91, of Fall River, Judge of the United States Circuit Court, and former president of the Harvard Alumni Association; Robert P. Patterson, LL.B. '15, of New York City, Judge of the United States District Court, Southern New York District; Charles Warren '89 of Washington, D. C., lawyer and former Assistant Attorney General of the United...
...Weir was willing to consent to having "non-employes' " names on the ballots, so that A. F. of L.'s Amalgamated Iron, Steel & Tin Workers Union delegates might be eligible, but he drew the line at voting "ex-employes." He also refused to abandon the secret ballot in favor of the petition system. Deeming that such procedure rules would give outside A. F. of L. men undue advantage, he brusquely notified the Board: "We must consider any arrangement with you terminated...