Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louisiana, a hotbed of Dixiecrat rebellion four years ago, the Democratic State Central Committee last week voted 77-9 to put the Stevenson-Sparkman ticket on the ballot under the rooster symbol, traditional emblem of the Democratic Party. The surrender was not unconditional: the committee told Louisiana citizens that they could vote for Eisenhower in November and still remain Democrats in good standing. It also repudiated the national platform planks dealing with civil rights, FEPC and Senate cloture...
Socialist. For President, 55-year-old Darlington Hoopes, a Reading, Pa. lawyer; for Vice President, Samuel Friedman, second in command of a New York social workers' union. Hoopes and Friedman hope to get on the ballot in 25 states, plan a nationwide campaign to promote the Socialist gospel...
Scandal v. Scorn. Ichiro Ishikawa's wife Kimiko. who went proudly forth to cast her ballot as one of Japan's newly enfranchised women, reported these scandalous goings-on to her family. They did not correspond to what May Moon had learned in her civics books. So May Moon wrote an indignant letter to Asahi Shimbun, Japan's most influential newspaper. Government investigators moved into Ueno...
...When James Byrnes was U.S. Secretary of State (1945-47), one of the big international issues was the U.S. demand for a secret ballot in Eastern European countries occupied by the Red army. Byrnes had to carry the ball for a democratic safeguard against voter coercion which his own state had not adopted...
...first time in their thousands of years of history, South Koreans last week elected a President by popular and secret ballot. President Syngman Rhee, 77, got 5,238,769 of the 7,000,000 votes cast, without making a speech. On election day, the old man went to the polls with his loyal wife, an Austrian woman 20 years his junior whom he met in Geneva in 1932, when he was fighting his country's battles in the League of Nations...