Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Clement L. Shaver, 87, abstemious lawyer who successfully put over the nomination of fellow West Virginian John W. Davis for President at the famed 103-ballot 1924 Democratic Convention, as national chairman managed Davis' unsuccessful campaign against Calvin Coolidge; after long illness; in Fairmont...
...foolproof international control. He should propose a new world agreement which would guarantee the East against Western aggression and vice versa. He should reiterate the God-given right of the peoples of all countries, large and small, to governments of their own choosing, at genuinely free elections by secret ballot. He should invoke the lofty principles and the spirit of international decency and justice which gave birth to the United Nations and pledge our support for nations which live up to those principles...
Then Knowland, who has always considered Dick Nixon an upstart, arrived at the convention and quietly passed the word that he was for Ahmanson. He blocked a move for a secret ballot in the election, and the Nixon bloc caved in. Ahmanson was chosen by acclamation, and thereby Goody Knight took a long step toward control of the California delegation to the 1956 Republican National Convention...
Only a few thousand voters bothered to cast ballots in the Tennessee Republican primary. As their senatorial nominee they picked Ray H. Jenkins, counsel in the Army-McCarthy investigation. Jenkins insisted that he was not a candidate, but he neglected to have his name removed from the ballot. This week, with Jenkins still insisting, the Republican state committee prepared to name a replacement...
...Democratic by a margin of about 4-1, the Republicans need 55% of the vote in other states to keep control of the House. Running with Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, they got 54.9% and a shaky three-seat margin; this year the magic name will not be on the ballot...