Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these meetings have been scheduled long in advance and they have not always been men familiar to the fist year undergraduates. Consequently, the lectures were not generally attended, even it the start of the year. The remedy proposed for this lack of interest will be a kind of Australian ballot system by which lectures popular among the Freshmen will be obtained. The system will be thoroughly explained tonight...
...negative votes were permitted. Every ballot cast was a ballot for Primp de Rivera and there existed every opportunity for his henchmen to dragoon the illiterate peasantry to the polls and force them to vote...
Before a single ballot was cast Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera brazenly and confidently declared: "The plebiscite will signify approval by public opinion in all classes of life of the work realized by the Government...
...When we reached the Union station, they put me on a train. In Springfield, Ill., I had another parade up to the state capitol. Then a man, who said he was chief clerk of the elections department, told me that I would probably be put on the ballot in November. Then I will be able to ask all the Illinois voters this question: "Should the Congress of the United States modify the federal act to enforce the 18th amendment to the constitution of the United States so that the same shall not prohibit the manufacture, sale, transportation, importation, or exportation...
...week, high in New Steinway Hall, clerks of the Stadium Concert Management sorted letters, thousandsof them, neatly typewritten letters, smudgily scrawled letters, letters from Manhattan, letters from far away, from tired city folk, from vacationists taking their Stadium concerts by radio. Into piles they put them to be counted ballot-wise to make up a concluding "request" night program. Tchaikovsky was first. The program: Pathetic Symphony (Tchaikovsky); Don Juan (Richard Strauss) ; Tales of the Vienna Woods (Johann Strauss); 1812 Overture (Tchaikovsky...