Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bought quite a bill of goods from the old cronies who had flocked to Harriman. As soon as Truman arrived in Chicago, such worthies as Indiana's Frank McKinney and New York's Judge Samuel Rosenman assured him that Ave had lined up 450 or more first-ballot votes. They reasoned that such favorite sons as Ohio's Frank Lausche, Michigan's G. Mennen Williams and New Jersey's Robert Meyner would hold their delegations for themselves, at the first sign of firm opposition to Stevenson. They reported that Stevenson's following was lukewarm...
...Truman pronouncement hurt Stevenson, who had been well on the way to a first-ballot victory. It strengthened Harriman and pumped new life into his campaign. The chances of a Harriman-Stevenson deadlock improved the odds on dark-horse candidates, particularly Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington and Texas' master of compromise, U.S. Senator Lyndon Johnson...
...last week's primary Cobo won the 1956 nomination, rolled up 349,228 votes to Leonard's 158,203. On the Democratic ballot, the 45-year-old Williams, who thrashed Leonard with equal ease in the 1954 general election, got 418,432 votes in running unopposed for an unprecedented fifth term. Republican leaders found some comfort in the fact that in 75 of 144 key Detroit precincts-accurately used in the past to forecast election trends-Cobo ran well ahead of the 1954 G.O.P. ticket. To win in November, say the Republicans hopefully, Cobo needs only...
...gold) oratory. In 1924, then a member of the Jackson County Court under the auspices of hard-knuckled Democrat Boss Tom Pendergast, Politician Truman sat with ears growing numb under his crystal-set earphones. He listened to almost every word of the 14-day, 103 -ballot convention in Madison Square Garden (Alabama-"24 votes for Oscahhh W. Undahhhwood") that finally nominated John W. Davis to run against Cal Coolidge (and Charles G. Dawes). At that convention the governor of Colorado was trampled in a melee, and the convention chairman banged so hard for order that his gavel flew apart...
...Majority. With the battle lines thus clearly drawn, the voting began. On the first four ballots, La Pira ran consistently two or three votes behind his Communist-line opponent, but neither candidate got the necessary absolute majority of 31 votes. Finally came the crucial fifth ballot when, by Italian law, the candidate with the most votes wins whether or not he has an absolute majority. Intently the tight-packed crowd listened as the clerk called out the results: blank ballots-6; Nenni Socialist Raffaello Ramat-27; La Pira...