Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following the address, an election of a fictitious national council was conducted, using the proportional representation system, and counting the ballots under the plan now used in Cincinnati, Ohio. On the first ballot, Hoover polled nearly twice as many first choices as he needed for election. The first choices above the necessary number were passed to other candidates, who were elected as follows: Calvin Coolidge, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Alfred E. Smith, and Owen D. Young...
...President Ernest Hatch Wilkins called on his students to follow through. "You were playing a game then," he said. "For the rest of your lives play the reality." He promised time off on Election Day (Nov. 8) for all who are eligible to vote, free transportation for those who ballot in Cleveland...
That, in effect, is the way it began, four weeks ago. Out of the telephone conversation a meeting was arranged in Manhattan. And out of the meeting last week came a plan by which Studebaker, subject to the formality of a stockholders' ballot, will acquire White Motor...
...their run-off primary for Governor last week, a million Texas Democrats divided almost evenly between rich, rotund Ross Shaw Sterling, incumbent, and lean, homely Miriam Amanda (''Ma'') Ferguson, onetime Governor. As the ballot count slowly progressed Governor Sterling and Mrs. Ferguson seesawed back & forth with sometimes only a few hundred votes separating them. When Governor Sterling's lead moved above 3,000. Jim Ferguson, whose impeachment and removal as Governor put his wife into politics and office, began to demand a recount...
Manager v. Swinger. California has had no Democratic Senator since James Duval Phelan's term expired in 1921. On the Aug. 30 primary ballot are six names: Parson M. Abbott, Maurice James McCarthy, Annie Riley Hale, Robert Pierce Shuler, Justus S. Wardell, William Gibbs McAdoo. Abbott and McCarthy are irreconcilable supporters of Alfred Emanuel Smith who still think this is 1928. The candidacy of Mrs. Hale (Colyumist Heywood Broun's mother-in-law) is not taken seriously. ''Bob" Shuler, a radio revivalist, is a political maverick who is also running in the Republican primary. The real race appeared...