Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reginald Maudling in a short, sharp contest that left the Conservatives more united than before-a legacy of outgoing leader Sir Alec Douglas-Home. Sir Alec's own selection by the Tories' "magic circle" in 1963 had caused such acrimony that he was led to institute the ballot by Tory M.P.s...
Under the rules, no candidate may run whose platform is "contrary to democratic principles" or whose party is linked to foreign governments. Thus all Communists and Castroites are excluded. There is no room on the ballot for anyone whose political rights were suspended in the early days of the revolution, thereby blocking the comeback of former Presidents Jânio Quadros and Juscelino Kubitschek, whose voting privileges were lifted for ten years. Also excluded is any person who served as a Cabinet minister under deposed Joāo Goulart, the demagogic President whose purposeful drift to the left sparked last...
...each board, replacements are mostly elected by the members themselves, but some positions are filled by alumni ballot. Cornell's 49 trustees also include one picked by the New York State Grange and the eldest linear male descendant of Ezra Cornell...
...good thing that happens in most corporations is that the president appoints a lot of the directors. Some companies oper» ate a mutual protective society for presidents. They all cross-exchange. They stay on each other's boards and they protect each other. They put out a ballot with one slate and you can vote yes or no, but there is a 99% vote because there is only one slate. You have no alternative but to vote with management. Not all of the stockholders' suggestions can be bad; some should be listened to. But most management doesn...
Root of Evil. Pennsylvania's Democratic Senator Joseph S. Clark had no less than 27 separate proposals up his sleeve, including two that dealt with one of Clark's pet peeves: the seniority system of selecting committee chairmen. Clark suggested that henceforth chairmen be elected by secret ballot taken among each committee's majority party members, further urged that a mandatory retirement age of 70 be imposed on all chairmen. Wisconsin's Democratic Senator William Proxmire, mindful of the fact that nine of the Senate's 16 standing committees are chaired by Southerners, wanted...