Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President. To balance his Navy-won knowledge of the Pacific, he made a nine-week, 16-country trip to Europe, interviewed several heads of state, including Stalin, then came home to conduct a vigorous nationwide campaign. He attracted considerable liberal Republican support and had 157 votes on the first ballot at the Philadelphia convention in 1948. He tried again this year, took a pre-convention leave of absence from his university presidency to campaign. But most of his 1948 support had shifted to Eisenhower, and Stassen failed to cut an impressive figure at Chicago. The shift of his Minnesota delegation...
...want to stay with France, under a virtual protectorate, or prefer to rejoin the fatherland from which they gladly separated in the graveyard days of 1947. Those in favor of Germany are at a legal disadvantage: only candidates known to approve the Francophile government will be allowed on the ballot. But German propagandists, dramatizing themselves as the "repressed German underground," are infiltrating Saarbrücken, urging the German-speaking Saarlanders to protest the French "police state" by casting blank ballots. They got a welcome assist from the German Bundestag in Bonn, which cheered through a resolution declaring the Saar election...
...electors pledged to Greeley were voting for a lost cause, they were left on their own. Three voted for the dead man, three spread their votes among other party leaders, 18 voted for their party's vice presidential candidate. B. Gratz Brown, and 42 gave their ballots to the governor of Indiana, Thomas A. Hendricks. In 1912, the Republicans' vice presidential nominee, James Sherman, died the Wednesday before election. There was no time to get his name off the ballot; after the election, the party's national committee chose Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University...
...other 42 states, the law is less specific and electors are bound mainly by tradition. As recently as 1948, the tradition was flouted in one instance. Tennessee Elector Preston Parks, though chosen as a Democrat, claimed his constitutional privilege to vote as he pleased. He cast his ballot for States Righter J. Strom Thurmond, and it was so counted...
...Nazis coming back? Last week, commenting on West Germany's local elections, some foreign newsmen seemed to think they are. New York Timesman Drew Middleton, who has been making predictions of a Nazi revival for years, reported the specter of German fascism overhanging every ballot box. Bonn protested "splash headlines" and "one-sided reporting" by foreign correspondents. Conditions in Germany, said Konrad Adenauer's press chief, are "extraordinarily stable"; the election proved that both left and right extremists are "steadily sinking in numbers...