Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About 500 students took part as delegates, and more are expected tonight. The first business this evening will be the completion of the platform, and a spirited contest over the prohibition plank is anticipated. After the adoption of the platform, the third ballot for President will be taken...
...first ballot last night found the votes scattered among 26 men. Smith and Baker led with 162 and 126 votes respectively, but these totals fell short of the number necessary for nomination. In the second ballot, the field narrowed to eight, with Smith receiving 356 and Baker...
California's 26 nominating votes were thus instructed for Smith. Two days later, Connecticut added her 14 to the Smith list, making it 541½ first-ballot votes. With such pro-Smith States as Maryland, New Jersey, Wyoming and Vermont yet to be heard from, and reserve Smith strength at hand from at least two Favorite Sons (Ohio's Pomerene, Nebraska's Hitchcock), the rush for the brown derby counter seemed so well under way that Smith men tried to talk down their earlier talk of acclaiming Candidate Smith on the first ballot at Houston. It would...
...Pomerene. But voters in three-fourths of the districts expressed preferences as follows: Smith, 32,694; Pomerene, 9,588; Donahey, 5,271; Reed, 432; Walsh, 151; McAdoo, 37. Favorite Son Pomerene was reported as seeing no reason why his delegates should not vote for Candidate Smith on the first ballot...
Unique was the electioneering of Candidate Georges Claude, a well known chemist. He ignored politics completely, and lectured to his constituents in crisp, entertaining style on scientific subjects. Intrigued, the ballot-casters gave him a thumping majority...