Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles, fifth city of the U. S., got a new Mayor last week. By a 31,500-ballot majority John Clinton Porter was ousted for Frank Lawrence Shaw. In office since 1929, Mayor Porter won a recall election last year because his opposition consisted of a scattered field of nonentities. But many a Los Angeles citizen was itching to get rid of him because : 1) as a Dry, he had '"disgraced" his city by refusing to drink a wine toast to the U. S. President while junketing in France with other U. S. mayors two years ago (TIME, June...
Harvard conservatism showed itself yesterday when the incomplete returns from the Phillips Brooks House Peace Poll showed that question two on the ballot received more votes than either of the other two alternatives. With Adams and Lowell missing at a late hour last night, 477 votes were tabulated from the remaining polling places. Extreme pacifists and extreme militarists registered 150 and 119 votes respectively on questions one and three...
...least fitted to be president of Harvard" must remain nameless, as far as the Harvard Critic is concerned, it was revealed last night. The Critic, which will publish its second issue next week will contain no results of the poll started in its opening number, because to date no ballots have been received. In its first issue, the Critic published a ballot which readers were invited to fill out with the name of the candidate least fitted for the presidency...
Therefore I suggest that the CRIMSON create an opportunity for peacefully inclined students to express their opinions. Such a ballot might be worded thus...
That the Brown Herald drew a large amount of criticism upon itself by its recent anti-war ballot was due to the fact that so many members of the student body were definitely of the conviction that war was an inexcusably absurd method of setting international differences of opinion. The same attitude was responsible for the declaration on the part of Oxford, Edinburgh, and other British university student bodies to the effect that they would under no circumstances go to war for "king and country...