Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should agree with me in this matter, Mr. Field, and if it is too late to effect any change on the ballot, I hope you will at least give more publicity to the explanation of the third question as it was printed in yesterday's CRIMSON C. Hayden Whitney...
...Chicago on Illinois primary day last week, twelve thugmen with bulging biceps and "gatts" carried off an entire ballot box into which trustful Republicans had popped intimations of their desire to renominate Senator William B. McKinley, or contrarily to nominate "Colonel" Frank L. Smith...
...ballot stealing, while spectacular, had no real effect; since when the votes were counted Colonel Smith was found to be an easy winner...
...battles. Pinchot has the most ideas - some of them considered a little loose. Pepper has the most dignity - now and again a little heavy. Both Pinchot and Pepper are considered much more respectable than Vare, but Boss Vare is credited with knowing most about how votes are got into ballot boxes. Pinchot is conceded to be the hardest fighter. Last week he let out as follows: "I charge that perjury and forgery are now added to ballot-box stuffing, falsification of election returns and the city-wide sticker scandal of the Vare gang of Philadelphia. . . . "The Vare penmen not only...
...suggestion by Joseph Kastner of the New York WORLD (TIME, March 22, LETTERS), the approximate pages upon which answers can be run down are indicated in this week's Quiz. Subscribers who concentrate when they read will not need this crutch. 1) In the recent newspaper straw ballot, the total vote was about how many to one against prohibition? (See PROHIBITION.) 2) What nation was nominally responsible for deadlocking the League Council at Geneva? (See THE LEAGUE.) 3) What magazine for April carries a well-documented, brief comparative history of commercial aviation in the U. S.? (See AERONAUTICS...