Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pocket. Taftmen have already corralled 51 of the 103 members of the Republican National Committee. In a recent poll, G.O.P. Congressmen picked Taft 71 to 54 over Eisenhower. A majority of the Senate's Republicans are Taftmen. As matters stand today, Taft seems to have 400 first-ballot votes out of the expected 1,200 delegate votes (601 will be needed to nominate). In 1940, he started with 189 and in 1948 with...
Macdonald hopes that balloting will go better than last fall when Adams House voted a day late because election chairman Nathan Hale '52 failed to bring the ballot box to the evening meal. Therefore, Douglas G. Boshkoff had to wait a day to be chosen...
...President's wife played a key role in the election. Before going to the hospital for a major operation, she recorded a speech, broadcast on the night marking the end of the campaign. "I would gladly give my life for a Peronista vote," said Evita. "Place in the ballot box your mark of love and faith . . . to our leader." The operation, reportedly for removal of a uterine growth, was successful, according to a palace communique...
After a rugged last week of street rallies ending in riots, election day was quiet. Voting, by law, was compulsory. Though torrential rains held down the rural vote, the capital turnout ran more than 90%. For the first time women voted, Evita casting hers in a special ballot box sent to her hospital...
Meanwhile, James Michael Curley brought to a close one of the strangest campaigns for the Boston mayoralty ever waged by a big city political "boss" Although his name appears on the ballot tomorrow, Curley has not raised his voice Silent too has been the once formidable vote-getting machine that made him the city's mayor four times, Congressman four times, and Governor once...