Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After completing the sixth ballot in its attempt to elect a Mayor, the Cambridge City Council acknowledged its stalemate, as Councilor Edward A. Crane '35 held his four votes and various independents split up the other five. The Council then adjourned until next Monday...
...there was one thing clear about next May's presidential primary in Oregon, it was that all the Democratic possibles would get a chance to show what they could do-since Oregon will put any name on the ballot on petition of a mere 1,000 voters. If there was another thing clear about the primary, it was that Oregon's U.S. Senator Wayne Morse, a latter-day Democrat, was not likely to let any Democrat pick up an advantage in his backyard. Last week, sure enough, Wayne Morse agreed-"reluctantly," he said-to let his name...
...friends of Morse's fellow liberal Democrat, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, who probably will lose most of his votes to Morse. The Humphreyites could hope that Favorite Son Morse will take Oregon's 17 delegates to the Los Angeles convention and some time after the first ballot, turn them over to Humphrey. But then, with one time Republican, onetime Independent, longtime Lone Wolf Wayne Morse, who could tell...
This week the presidential Taft-Hartley fact-finding board, headed by Mediator George William Taylor, will receive from the steel companies the offer that the workers will vote on in company-by-company, secret-ballot referendums. The offer: a three-year wage-and fringe-benefit package that, as the industry reckons it, would increase labor costs by 2.7% a year, or about 30? an hour over three years (present steel wages average $3.10 an hour, plus fringe benefits). According to Labor Department figures, 2.7% has been just about the average yearly increase in steel-industry productivity (output per manhour) since...