Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fringe on top of his rolling bandwagon. Pitted for the first time against a field of four, Kennedy registered a knockout. Favorite Son Morse waged a campaign of savage personal attack, which Kennedy ignored. The names of Hubert Humphrey, Stuart Symington and Lyndon Johnson were all listed on the ballot, though the three refused to campaign. Adlai Stevenson was an unwilling ghost candidate.† When the returns were in, Kennedy had outpointed all Democratic opponents put together: Kennedy, 135,000; Morse, 85,000; the others, a total of 44,000 votes. Unopposed in the Republican primary, Dick Nixon...
...Massachusetts." In the South there were signs of an incipient secession from Lyndon Johnson. A wobbly move to nominate Herman Talmadge as a strategic favorite son began in Georgia. Commented the Atlanta Constitution: "This will further increase the probability that Senator Kennedy will be nominated on the first ballot." In Arkansas, Governor Orval Faubus noted that Kennedy seems to have "started a trend...
...million school-construction bond issue (on the ballot in next month's primary); a measure increasing from $8,000,000 to $10,000,000 the monthly limit for allocating state bond funds to local school districts for classroom construction...
...send it to Los Angeles uninstructed and ready, under the unit rule, for a possible swing to Symington. But in a day-long fight at the state convention. Kennedy backers, led by Congressman Stewart Udall, won nine votes, enough to rule the delegation for at least the first ballot. ¶ Oklahoma's stormy Democratic convention unseated Kennedy-suoporting Governor J. Howard Edmondson. 34, as a national-convention delegate, steamrollered on to choose a 29-vote delegation bound to Lyndon Johnson by unit rule and prepared to settle for Symington. Edmondson, loser in an intraparty fight last February with State...
...decision, he had collected the written resignations of all Korea's mayors and police chiefs before the elections, and told them their resignations would be accepted unless "they secured victory for Rhee and Lee Ki Poong." But he credited the national police director with the plan for "stuffing ballot boxes beforehand with 40% Liberal votes." Then he burst into tears as he told his interrogators: "I never thought the world would change so quickly...