Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mild family quarrels were noted: ¶ Facing an old and troublesome problem, he national committee worked out a face-saving compromise on the party's "loyalty oath." The meaningless new rule assumes that state Democratic organizations will place the nominees of the national convention on the state ballot under the Democratic symbol; it eliminates the old provision requiring a pledge by individual delegates. But not long after the compromise was approved, former National Chairman Stephen Mitchell, a chief adviser to Stevenson, said he would fight to keep out of the convention South Carolina's former Governor James...
...Magsaysay. All election night long, the Manila radio rebroadcast calls from outlying areas pleading for protection from goons lurking near the polling places-and all night long Mrs. Keith listened to the pleas and sometimes to the sound of gunfire, as the aroused voters fought their way to the ballot boxes. Later she followed the bare foot, wondering peasants into the hitherto forbidden Malacañan Palace to sit admir ingly at the feet of their new President. Author Keith suffers from the conviction that every least thing that happens to her, her husband and their only son George...
...unofficial first ballot count indicated yesterday that the Cambridge Civic Association, which pledges to be "more sympathetic to Harvard", will regain a majority in the City Council election by a 5-4 margin...
Early speculation among the local politicians at the primary ballot count predicted that the CCA would also gain two more positions on the nine-member Council. These candidates are Marcus Morton, an incumbent who finished fifth in the voting yesterday with 2114, and Vice-Mayor Myman Pill, who placed ninth with...
...consent. Kefauver won in 1952 against token opposition. Democratic State Chairman Howard Morgan recently announced for Stevenson, came out with a blast against Harriman and Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio. Jack Bain, who headed Kefauver's 1952 primary campaign, says that "we will get Kefauver on the ballot, by petition if necessary, unless the Senator objects himself-and I haven't heard of any objections." As they approach the Oregon primary, the Democratic hopefuls will be acutely aware that Oregon is where Harold Stassen lost the Republican nomination to Tom Dewey...