Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign to elect Rhee's running mate, ailing Lee Ki Poong, who has difficulty walking and speaking because of a nervous disorder, and did not make a single campaign speech. So Rhee's Liberals set to work. Election day brought many complaints of voter intimidation and open ballot-fixing, of six-foot high boards outside some polling places showing voters how to mark their ballots for Rhee and Lee. Green-shirted members of Rhee's Anti-Communist Youth League lounged outside the booths as voters arrived, often in organized teams of three (so that...
...candidates." Attorney Francis X. Hayes gave some career counseling: "Percentagewise, in politics the chances for material rewards are greater for the lawyer than the layman." Hudson County Sheriff William Flanagan delved into history and also infuriated Republicans (who are threatening to sue) by suggesting that Republicans stuffed the ballot box at midnight in 1954 to assure the election of Senator Clifford Case. Said another politician: "In Jersey City, the dead still rise on election day to cast their ballots...
Morality & Politics. Father Canavan not only brought politicians into the class room; he also took his students out into politics. Last fall he had them round up signatures to get a referendum on the ballot authorizing a reorganization study of Jersey City's commission-type government. When the referendum won, entrenched politicians grumbled that Canavan's students were paid off in good grades...
...into history ran its endless way last week. In Washington, statesmen spoke of law and human rights and national survival. In the South, plain citizens, newly articulate and determined, argued for human rights at 5 and 10? store lunch counters. The exchange of minds funneled through ballot boxes and sound trucks in New Hampshire, and men of political ambition raised voices at farms and factory gates in Wisconsin, while the question of one man's survival clanged through the cell bars of California's San Quentin prison and reawakened the Bible-old debate over the right...
...first use of the act-and its first legal test-came in southern Georgia's Terrell County, where in 1956 only 48 of 5,036 voting-age Negroes were registered. (In contrast, 2,679 of 3,233 voting-age whites were qualified.) Among Negroes denied the ballot because of "illiteracy" were four teachers with college degrees...