Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...citizens The Literary Digest last week began mailing ballots for its third national Prohibition poll. Unlike its last ballot, scattering votes among "For," "Against" and "Modification," this one was limited to "For" or "Against" the 18th Amendment. ¶ After discovering 100 cases of liquor and a sub-calibre machine gun in a dwelling house, Federal Prohibition agents in New Orleans last week arrested Charles Genard, onetime halfback at Loyola Uni-versity (New Orleans), sought his brother, Dominick. president of Loyola's freshman class, and their father. College officials were amazed to learn that the Genard family was accused...
...trades to put their man over. There was a tentative casting about for a vice presidential running mate. Perhaps it would be Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia. Or then it might be Governor George White of Ohio who would get his State's 52 votes on the first ballot. Opponents of Governor Roosevelt's nomination were making no visible progress uniting on one of the other candidates in the field. And a full field it was, with a great assortment of men ranging from those who were earnestly pressing on to those who sat back passively in the hope Presidential...
Sleighs jingled merrily through Finland's pine forests, snowplows roared up and down the streets of Helsinki (Helsingfors). In a nationwide, nose-nipping blizzard last week hardy Finns decided by ballot between continuance of Prohibition and inauguration of State Liquor Control...
...Mann used to play poker with President Harding, no stickler in politics. He did useful jobs for Calvin Coolidge in 1924. An ardent Hooverizer, he turned up in Kansas City in 1928 with enough Negro delegates on his list to ensure the Beaverman's nomination on the first ballot. During the campaign he took $25.000 from the Republican National Committee, set up separate headquarters, herded in Hoovercrats by none too creditable means. He induced Mr. Hoover to speak at Elizabethton, Tenn. and when the Republican nominee broke the Solid South, Col. Mann claimed large credit for his carrying Virginia...
...preferential system of balloting will be used, each man voting for a single one of the four candidates for Class Secretary; six of the 15 nominees for Permanent Class Committee; and seven of the 17 men up for Class Day Committee. The candidates having the largest number of votes will hold the position. Each ballot must have the voter's signature...