Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a coal miner considers President Lewis a racketeer. That is because he is as ruthless as any political boss in running his organization. Dissenters are put down with fist and foot. Every U. M. W. election brings its charge that ballot boxes have been stuffed with Lewis votes from locals which exist only on paper...
...damage to their gardens, began to petition the city commissioners for an ordinance restraining dogs from running loose in the city. Dog-lovers rose in hot defense. Caught between the two camps and facing an imminent city election, the commissioners sidestepped. They put the dog-flower issue on the ballot. Topekans promptly got so interested in the resulting wrangle that candidates for city offices were almost forgotten. The election went to the dogs...
Meanwhile zealous Storm Troopers were flaunting such amazing slogans as "Christ was the first anti-Semite!" and "Down with baptized Jews who have become Protestant pastors!" Such stuff of course meant nothing except that the Nazis were resolved to win the ballot battle. Up for election were candidates to fill some 400,000 posts as German church elders and board members. All over the Fatherland Nazi intimidation tactics worked. In Munich, Nuremberg and scores of lesser cities the von Bodelschwingh opposition crumpled up completely, agreed to support "fusion lists" of candidates, each packed with a thumping majority of Nazi "German...
...Farley, a Roman Catholic, flew back to Washington without hearing how he had almost failed to get his D.C.L. The trustees of famed, conservative Protestant Episcopal Sewanee had met in special session, with Episcopal Bishop Thomas Frank Gailor presiding. For every honorary degree unanimous consent was necessary. When ballots on "General" Farley's name were scrutinized, one looked like a squiggly, illegible "No." It was certainly not a "Yes." Then up spoke Trustee Arthur Crownover, according to campus gossip, to point out that the by-laws said an illegible ballot must be thrown out. "Then throw it out." said...
...inoperative until the electorate has a chance to vote on it. Last week Ohio Drys managed to delay a ratification vote ordered by the Legislature for November by rallying 242,000 petitioners, 88,000 more than necessary. Instead of voting for or against Repeal in November, Ohio voters will ballot on whether or not to hold such a referendum. The Dry maneuver lessened the possibility of 36 States ratifying the 21st Amendment before the end of the vear...