Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Laurence Doheny for arranging the Elk Hills oil lease in 1922 while serving as Secretary of the Interior-Mrs. Fall posed and spoke for Fox Movietone News. The film contained "news" which had escaped or been rejected by the newspapers. Mrs. Fall declared: "The jury . . . stood on the second ballot nine for acquittal, two for conviction. The twelfth and last man who came over to the eleven for conviction, three days later came to me in tears begging forgiveness. He had not slept, had walked the floor since his terrible mistake, praying God to forgive his terrible weakness...
...last-minute effort to get action the most famed of Mexican feminists, Dona Sofia Villa de Buentello, a handsome woman in her early 40's, called on President Emilio Portes Gil. Women she declared would make ideal pollwatchers and ballot-counters "because they would not let themselves be corrupted or suborned, nor can they hope to win high Government posts by selling themselves vilely." In a word Dona Sofia asked the President to decree 100% feminine custody of the presidential vote. He promised to ponder her suggestion, gallantly bowed her out; soon the Ministry of Interior announced: "Federal troops will...
...militantly non-partisan A. F. of L. Nimbly he kept his verbal balance. Said he: "In Great Britain I am a party man, unashamed of it, glorying in it, but here today . . . I represent the whole nation." Abstractly he mentioned his Labor party's "revolution of the ballot box," then hurried on to footing less precarious. Fearlessly he generalized about war, common enemy of all laborers in or out of politics. "Labor," he said, "bears the burdens, the pains, the sacrifices of war. I come . . . as a missionary of peace." U. S. Railroad Unions, with 400,000 members, have...
...houses as havens for returning alumni. This may all well be, yet it emphasizes a tendency too easily succumbed to on the part of the advocates of the House Plan to emphasize the house aspect and forget Yale. We want no heterogeneous conglomeration of houses like Oxford--no Ballot, Chariot's or Trinity: we want Yale, transcending the whole and holding this house aspect in check when it comes to these questions of loyalty and rivalry...
Last week in Hollywood's American Legion stadium, President Gillmore disclosed these negotiations to a host of 4,000 actors. Loudly they approved Equity's 80% demand. A ballot was taken, the results to be sent to the producers. With a credo thus determined, Equity was prepared to continue its campaign with more sanity, unanimity...