Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jennings Bryan, the Great Commoner, had led until his death in 1925, and 2) the urban bloc, largely Catholic and "wet," mainly concentrated in the East, which Bryan had called "the enemy's country." In their intense suspicion of each other, the two wrangling camps had taken 44 ballots to nominate a compromise presidential candidate in 1920, and an exhausting 103 ballots in 1924. Having lost badly with both compromises, Ohio Publisher-Politician James M. Cox in 1920 and West Virginia Lawyer John W. Davis in 1924, the Democrats in 1928 turned to a man who unmistakably spoke...
...Part Boost. The fact is that the Senate-approved civil rights bill is a moderate device that draws new safeguards around Southern Negroes, and tries to move them toward equality by way of the ballot box. In its six parts, the bill...
Chiang in the National Assembly by the time the total reached the 789 required for election on the first ballot...
Last week U.S. Steel was forced to go along with a pet Soss project. On proxy ballots mailed out for the annual meeting May 2, management included a Soss proposal that stockholders be permitted to vote on whether they want a secret ballot in proxy voting, the first such proposal in corporate history. She contends that so much corporate stock is held by employees that they need the protection of a secret ballot to vote against management proposals. When Mrs. Soss first petitioned the corporation for her proposal, it refused. Mrs. Soss took her case to the SEC, which, without...
Also on the ballot are U.S. Steel's objections : under present rules, any stockholder can remain anonymous by registering his stock in the name of a bank or broker; secret balloting would seriously restrict recounts and court challenges of close proxy battles; the practical details for working out the system are immense...