Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Radcliffe, one of the seven North House candidates for the Council is on probation. Mary I. Bunting, president of Radcliffe, told the three House presidents yesterday morning they could permit the girl on probation to run provided they place a statement on the ballot informing voters that no one on pro can serve "unless the declared policy is reversed." The ballot will not say which girl is on pro, one House president said...
Because the Negro is a member of a minority constituting some 11% of the U.S. population, he can never expect to register more than modest victories in the ballot box unless he wins white adherents to his cause. Here, also, black pride is dictating the new posture, which is not that of a needy supplicant begging for white assistance, but that of an equal who proclaims his self-sufficiency and his value as any man's ally. Many facets of Negro community life now reflect this concerted effort on the part of the Negro to elevate his own status...
...Northern California's San Mateo County attracted national attention largely because Shirley Temple, who as a child was every moviegoer's lollipop, was in the race. But Mrs. Shirley Temple Black, 39, mother of three and as conservative as could be, was not a hit at the ballot box. She lost the Republican race to Attorney Paul N. McCloskey, a moderate, by 52,878 votes...
...troops, he rejected the wording of San Francisco's Proposition P, which called for a unilateral, immediate pullout. The issue had lost 2 to 1 in San Francisco a week earlier, and San Mateo voters would undoubtedly have rejected it even more decisively had it been on their ballot...
...they are to go into debt as consumers, as voters Americans tend to pinch pennies. Just a year ago, in an atmosphere of general uneasiness over inflation and rising interest rates, they voted down fully half of the $2.3 billion in proposed public-bond issues that were on the ballot across the nation. Not this year. Facing a staggering $3.5 billion in bond proposals at the polls last week-second highest total in U.S. history-voters enthusiastically turned thumbs...