Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acquisition of 49 of his home State's 61 delegates by Candidate Lowden. Other victories in the Midwest having brought the Lowden delegates to a total of 183, Clarence F. Buck, the Lowden impresario, announced that Mr. Lowden would be nominated at Kansas City on the fourth ballot...
...this statement Impresario James W. Good of Hooverism gently replied: "Every indication points to Mr. Hoover's nomination on the first or second ballot...
...Hubert Work, Secretary of the Interior, one of the many Hoover "managers," asserted that the "actual" Hoover strength was 214 pledged delegates; that Candidate Hoover would be nominated on the first ballot by 570 votes (only 545 are necessary...
...worth. The college side-show serves to whet the appetite while the main tent is being prepared. But the pungency of the 1924 performance is lacking this year. Houston may watch a real struggle: New Lecture Hall is slated to observe a walk-over on the first ballot...
...Lowden. While Hooverites counted their chickens and hoped they would hatch (see "The Beaver-Man"), Lowdenites did likewise. They counted up as high as 200 delegates, "sure" on the first ballot. Candidate Lowden's prospects were brighter for carrying his home