Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This year the voting was done on unsigned ballots. Each voter checked on the ballot the men of his class that he favored for election. Seven of the Junior ballots were unvalid compared to one of the 307 cast by the Class...
Vernon Monroe Jr. '31, of New York, polling the largest number of votes on the Sophomore class ballot, received a total of 121 counts with John Bright Garrison '31, of West Newton, six votes behind him. Samuel Lawrence Batchelder '31 of Boston was the third member of the Class of '31 to be elected...
What the Jury Did. The jury went into retirement for 42 minutes. John Cowan, one of the jurors, was later interviewed by a reporter. He gave the following account of what took place: the first ballot was 8-4 for conviction, the second 9-3, the third 10-2. At that point a court attendant warned the jurors it was after 5 p. m. A fourth ballot was quickly taken: 12-0. "Guilty." Colloquy between the reporter and the juror...
...Coolidge believed that his instructions through Secretary Sanders to unpledged delegations turned them to Mr. Hoover, "which brought about his nomination on the first ballot...
Leaning forward in a carved armchair at the Palazzo Chigi, Signor Benito Musso- lini sat with his hard chin cupped between contented palms, last week, watching newsreel flashes of Cardinals and Monsignors marching to the ballot box (TIME, April 1), attended by blaring brass bands and wildly cheering throngs. Never before have Princes of the Church shepherded their clergy and people to vote in a Parliamentary Election of the present Italian Kingdom. Always before the priesthood has abstained, urging their flocks to do likewise, in protest against the Government's suppression of the Pope's temporal power in 1870. Recently...