Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that his policies are going to lose the election, Secretary Benson glanced often at a motto, in small type, pasted to the marble base of his pen and pencil set, where only he could see it. "Oh Lord," it says, "give us men with a mandate higher than the ballot...
That expensive straw ballot, the presidential primary, last week added more wisps to the political winds...
...Pennsylvania, Adlai Stevenson, supported by all top Democratic leaders, and unopposed on the Democratic ballot, got 627,000 votes to 37,000 write-ins for Kefauver. On the Republican ballot, Ike got 925,000 votes to 43,000 for California's Senator William Knowland. Ike outran Stevenson even in Philadelphia (which went heavily Democratic in 1952). The straw: Eisenhower over Stevenson, in Pennsylvania...
Outside the Cumberland Township polling place north of Gettysburg a damp snow fell; in the small frame building a potbelly stove glowed comfortably as a dozen early risers politely stepped back to allow their famed neighbor the first primary vote. Dwight Eisenhower grinned a good morning, accepted his ballot from Clerk Herbert Raab, ducked into the farthest of five bunting-draped booths and took 60 seconds to mark his choices for "President of the United States" and 14 other offices. He reappeared to slip the folded paper into a ballot box, then drove off through the snow to Harrisburg...
...collapse in 1931 with the Depression. The experience soured Chile on dictatorship, but did not discourage Ibáñez. He tried three more revolutions, including a 1939 Putsch copied after that of the Nazis. All failed, and Ibáñez finally decided, in 1952, to try the ballot box. His lonely, military stiffness, his speeches barked out like parade-ground orders, and his earnest promises to cut the cost of living, appealed to Chileans tired of the older parties. He won easily...