Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vote will be carried on as usual with the preferential type of ballot. Voters must designate in the space opposite the candidates names on the ballot their first, second, third, and in the case of the vice president their fourth choices. Every candidate for office must be voted on or the ballots will be thrown out. Signatures will be required on the ballots but will be regarded as confidential...
...William Mitchell, Colonel of U. S. aviation, found guilty of conduct "to the prejudice of good order and military discipline," went to the President's desk for review. The paragraph that the presidential eyes came especially to rest upon was the one that read: "Upon secret written ballot the Court sentences the accused to be suspended from rank, command and duty, with forfeiture of all pay and allowances, for five years" (Time, Dec. 28). Col. Mitchell's adherents had been hoping that the President would delete that "five" and write "two" or perhaps "three." They had maintained that...
...Court, upon secret, written ballot, two-thirds of the members present at the time the vote was taken concurring in each finding of guilty, finds the accused guilty of all specifications and of the charge...
...Upon secret written ballot the Court sentences the accused to be suspended from rank, command and duty, with forfeiture of all pay and allowances, for five years...
Ellsworth Charles Haggerty of Allston, Mass., was elected President of the class of 1927 on the final ballot. The number of ballots, 60 per cent. of the entire class, was finally obtained yesterday, after a second set was sent out to those whose returns had not been received...