Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, Ohio's delegation will cast a courtesy ballot or two for Favorite Son White ' When he fails to make headway, the delegates' obligation to him will have been discharged. Then they will be free to switch to some more likely candidate from Ohio Mr. Cox or Senator Robert Johns Bulkley may be given a short complimentary tryout. Finally, depending on how the convention breaks, the delegation will turn to its real choice for the Presidency, the one man from Ohio who could lay serious claim to the nomination and who once nominated, could give Herbert Hoover a hot race...
Democrats did not vote for Mr. Baker last week. He would not let his name go on the ballot. He had declared he did not want to be President, would not be a candidate for the nomination. Two years ago he wrote of the Presidency as the final sacrifice," adding: "The restraint, artificiality and loneliness in the White House . . . seems the life of a pet in a gilded cage." But Baker-for-President sentiment does not easily down. Last December a South Carolina friend wrote to urge candidacy upon him. Mr. Baker sidestepped thus: "The times clearly present a great...
...convention roll is called Governor Roosevelt will get the first votes announced from the floor because last week, almost unnoticed during the California excitement, he carried Alabama by default. The State which in 1924 kept stubbornly casting "24 votes for Underwood," until the Davis compromise on the 103d ballot, will this year lead off with "24 votes for Roosevelt...
Profound emotions aroused by the assassination of the President of the Republic (see p. 21), sent French voters to the polls last week in a mood of extraordinary and unwonted calm. There were no riots, no street fights, no arrests of individual malcontents such as disturbed the initial balloting fortnight ago for the Chamber of Deputies. But Frenchmen continued to think for themselves and to vote according to their thoughts. They were not stampeded toward the political Right by scare stories that beloved old President Doumer had been done to death by a "regular Bolshevik." The second ballot took...
...expected, the National Assembly on the first ballot elected as the 14th President of France the President of the Senate, peasant-born Albert Lebrun, 60, who like President Hoover has been a mining engineer. Out of 826 ballots cast President Lebrun received 633, the Socialists gestured by throwing away 114 ballots on the obscure secretary of their party Paul Faure, scattered friends of former Premier Paul Painlevé (who announced that he did not choose to run at the last moment) gave him twelve votes, the Communists cast eight for Communist Leader Marcel Cachin (who lost his Chamber seat...