Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Justice in 1945-46, he testified, normal procedure was upset and his office was bypassed. The only person who could have arranged the bypassing was Tom Clark. One case was the Kansas City vote-fraud scandal in the 1946 Democratic primary, in which there was no prosecution despite ballot-box stuffing, dynamiting and theft of evidence. Another was the famed case of the left-wing Amerasia magazine, which was caught with a file full of Government documents (some of them top-secret). No one involved went to prison...
...Gasperi threw them out (1947) in one of the boldest, most important decisions of the cold war. A few months later he met them over the ballot boxes-an enemy more ruthless, more disciplined, better organized than his own wobbly coalition. While many Italians with faint hearts and fat pocketbooks began planning flight from the country, De Gasperi and his allies licked the enemy-fair, square and decisively. "He has done this thing," the U.S. diplomat says, "and because he has done it successfully, it looks easy. But if he hadn't done it, Italy would have gone Communist...
...protest meeting" called because of the demands of 15 members of the association, president Jacob F. Schulman 2Dv cast the deciding vote in a tie ballot, and succeeded in tabling a motion that "no religious activities precede business meetings unless they are specifically called for by a majority vote of the association...
...returned to office with a paper-thin majority 18 months ago, Prime Minister Winston Churchill was flirting with the notion of calling a general election. It was, at most, a mild flirtation. But the very suggestion that the wise old politician was again making eyes at a ballot box was enough to set tongues wagging in London last week...
...your March 23 issue, I read that those who voted for General Carlos P. Romulo as a candidate for Secretary General of the United Nations were: the U.S., China, Colombia, Greece and Pakistan. There is an error in this listing. Lebanon voted for General Romulo. I checked the secret ballot and dropped it in the ballot box with my own hand. Consequently, at least one of those listed by you did not vote...