Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt bandwagon last week ran into John Nance Garner, onetime cowboy, in California. Again the bandwagon was "chocked." The New York Governor's friends were still sure their candidate would be nominated in Chicago next month. But after his California drubbing, they stopped claiming victory on the first ballot...
That was how the jury, 30 minutes out of its box in the Honolulu courtroom, stood on its first ballot. Of the five Americans, three Chinese, a Dane, a German, a Portuguese and a Hawaiian, only a minority were for convicting Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, U. S. N., Mrs. Granville Roland Fortescue, his mother-in-law, and Seamen Lord and Jones for the second-degree murder of Joseph Kahahawai Jr. After that, locked in around the long table with Foreman John Stone at its head, the jurors settled down to harangue one another on Hawaii's most sensational case...
...campaign drew to a close last week both Jew Blum and Gentile Tardieu became speechless from talking too much, had to let their final speeches be read by leather-lunged henchmen. Premier Tardieu's laryngitis grew so bad that he dared not even venture out to ballot. Thus of the French "Big Three" there remained shouting to the end only that redoubtable Gentile, barrel-chested Edouard Herriot, Mayor of Lyons and leader of the second-largest party in the Chamber of Deputies (107 seats out of 610), the misnamed Radical Socialists...
...small concern in what way they are elected. The recent decision to swell council membership by admitting two students not House residents is a wise one, as is the provision assuring each House a representative. The simplest methods of election in this event would be to have each House ballot for its won representative...
...will go into the convention with the support of two states. Texas and Louisiana. Garfield, I believe, received only one vote on the first ballot in 1880, the year he was nominated and elected. And the vital and vigorous Congressman from the fifteenth Texas district starts off with the kindly wishes of a good many persons and the friendship of the leaders...