Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difficult to avoid the conclusion that the State Department had its eye on the ballot-boxes, not the history books in publishing the Yalta documents at this time. Curiously enough, the Department had first scheduled the issuance of the Yalta volume for October, 1954, just a month before the Congressional election. Violent objections from the British Foreign Office stopped publication then. But leading Republican Congressmen have kept up steady pressure for release of the documents, and the Department finally decided to go ahead last week despite the obvious British objection...
...Gillette Safety Razor stockroom last fall to be elected Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by nearly 200,000 votes. He did not have much education (seventh grade plus some night courses) or experience (he had graduated from the WPA to stockroom clerk), but his name on the ballot looked just like that of popular and able U.S. Senator John F. (for Fitzgerald) Kennedy...
...restless, dynamic and ingenious people of Japan are not so movable or removable as the Emperor's sparrows. These sparrows have the vote. With pencil and ballot box, they notified the outside world last week that Japan has emerged from the passivity of defeat to seize and assert its independence...
...total of 120 seats for a democratic Congress Party coalition. Andhra's Communist leader, Nagi Reddi, was beaten. India's national Communist leader, Ajoy Ghosh, was reduced to humble mumbling about "my weaknesses and shortcomings." The fundamental Communist strategy of conquering free India legally through the ballot box, into which six years of painstaking work had gone, lay defeated and discredited. "I do not understand how it happened," muttered one Andhra Communist, a gaunt man with curly hair, whose job it had been to subvert the untouchables. "The stupid, dumb, illiterate masses have let us down. We should...
Ford promptly protested. It charged that Chevrolet had in effect stuffed the ballot box. Its dealers registered 56,802 cars in their own names, nearly 42,000 more than Ford dealers, according to the Polk computations. Only after subtracting the dealer registrations, said Ford Vice President R. S. McNamara, could one arrive at "actual sales to customers." These showed Ford clearly the legitimate winner by 25,257 car registrations, or 2%. Snapped a Chevrolet official: "Smoke screen. We're still the leaders, and we defy anyone to tell us differently...