Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sentiment in the meeting seemed almost evenly divided. The officials told the delegates that it would equal a vote of no confidence in their officers if they voted for the Woman's Party. Then the ballot was taken. The Woman's Party was refused admission, 123 to 48. Later the same day the Alliance voted down, 91 to 78, a resolution of the type favored by the Woman's Party...
...weapons. The Pennsylvania primary, and the Wadsworth manifesto in New York are examples of the secret power of wet sentiment. For many a candidate, the prohibition issue will be as deadly a potion as ever was wine poisoned by intriguing princes. Thus, a sophisticated danger yet lurks in ballot box politics...
...attitude, theological and political, is noncombative and rather Olympian save for a few retorts and counter-attacks upon the Fundamentalists. They put forward no candidate for Moderator, and while their vote was responsible for the election of the Moderate candidate, it constituted but a small portion of the entire ballot, which was, theologically speaking, preponderantly Fundamentalist...
Before the shouting over the Pennsylvania primaries had died away, the fate of another Republican Senator was sealed by ballot in Oregon. There Robert N. Stanfield was up for renomination. The nomination race turned into a free-for-all for the Republicans. There were eight candidates, including one Senator, one woman and one Wet (Oregon is prevailingly Dry). The Senator had against him an incident in a café in Baker, Ore., last fall (TIME, Sept. 28), when he was arrested for drunkenness and never appeared in court to face the charge...
...faculty cast 131 votes against the proposal and 141 for it, and it seems fairly certain that those who disapproved did so because they believe preliminary divisionals in Junior year would make Senior year an anticlimax. As one professor wrote on his ballot: "Life is real, life is earnest, and its goal is not a loafing Senior year." That Junior divisionals would bring about this result may be seriously questioned. The Student Council Committee drew up a very large program for distinction men in Senior year, and if the opposing faculty members had this in mind (as they must have...