Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...selecting the names of the men to appear on the CRIMSON straw vote ballot, selection has been made of men who have come into the forefront of contemporary politics this year, and who seem to be the men most likely to be considered at the national conventions...
...petition by 145 Wets had forced this question: Shall the House take up a resolution by Pennsylvania's Beck and Maryland's Linthicum to amend the Constitution for the return of liquor control to the States? The Wets, with no hope of actual victory, purposed by this ballot to put every House member on record on Prohibition, weed out the weaslers for the coming campaign, exhibit the growing Wet strength. Before the counting began, Drys claimed the Wet vote would not exceed 160. Wets predicted they would get at least 180. Final result: 227 Drys voting...
Nobody won the German election. Nobody has ever been elected President of Germany by popular vote on the first ballot. To be so elected a candidate must win 50% of all votes cast plus one vote more. In 1925 Paul von Hindenburg was not even a candidate on the first ballot; on the second (when the candidate who has a plurality wins), Old Paul was elected by 14,648,877 votes...
Significance? Day before the election Adolf Hitler said, "I will get more than 12,000,000 votes," thus tacitly admitting that he did not expect to be elected President on the first ballot...
...declined about 30% in the last two years. Last week the organization took action. To the kind of people that Cinema Tsar Will Hays believes have lately begun to be interested in the cinema-bankers, editors, ministers, scientists, socialites, teachers, writers-were mailed 150,000 small blue leaflets, containing ballots. On each ballot were listed 34 species of cinema under six generic heads. Voters were asked to check their favorite kind of cinema, add remarks. Twelve million more such ballots will be distributed, by mail and in theatres, in the next six months. Ten thousand ballots returned last week showed...