Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three weeks ago Mississippi held its primary with some 7,000 local candidates on the ballot. High men for Governor were Hugh White, rich lumberman, Mayor of Columbia, and Martin Sennett ("Sure Mike") Conner, smiling lawyer-farmer of Seminary. Completely turned out then was the Bilbo faction of Mississippi Democracy. In last week's run-off primary, with 2,000 names on the full ballot, Candidate Conner defeated Candidate White handsomely. "People v. Money" was the campaign issue, with Conner harping on White's wealth. A typical Conner campaign speech in which the Jackson Daily News, supporting Candidate White...
...resign from one or the other after election). He was defeated in both. Quebec's election day had its Chicago aspects. In Montreal 232 people were arrested. A man was killed in an argument in Sorel. Hooligans wrecked an anti-Houde newspaper office. Voting booths were raided, ballot boxes stolen. Municipal constables and provincial police arrested each other. Worried election officers imported phlegmatic Indians from up-country to telegraph the results...
...Governor Ignacio de la Mora of Jalisco last week. In Mexico City a strong group in the.Chamber of Deputies was demanding his removal, charging that he had reestablished peonage in Jalisco, that he had restored the priests to their original political eminence, that he was selling jobs, stuffing ballot boxes...
...friendship or arbitration with Austria, Turkey, Switzerland, the United States. Last week correspondents realized that Count Bethlen's rule was seriously threatened. The German crash and the general European situation was the immediate crisis. His troubles started more than a year ago when he limited the open ballot districts of Hungary from...
...years the Bethlen regime has kept in power by a neat device. Electoral districts, chiefly in the country, were made ''open ballot" districts. In them voters had to announce before the election committee just whom they wanted to vote for. It worked beautifully, but this spring the number of open ballot districts was reduced. As a result of the election 51 Opposition members took their places in the Hungarian parliament, and by the Hungarian Constitution 50 members have the right to call special and general sessions...