Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republican. In 1909 he ran again for Mayor of New York and lost. In 1910 he ran for Lieutenant Governor and lost. His ventures were attended with worse and worse luck at the polls. He has never been able to get the same circulation on the ballot that he got for his papers...
...enough of that in the Press Box. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson was showered with bouquets. The Maharajah of Patralia (India) wore a blue turban, pink earrings, gold bracelets, frock coat. Senator Raoul Dandurand‡ of Canada was elected President of the present League Assembly (the 6th) on the first ballot and took up his duties; to the satisfaction of the Commonwealth because he is Canadian, to the delight of France because he is of French-Canadian descent. Said he: "It is not to myself but to my country that this great honor was paid...
...Common honesty and common decency would lead these gentlemen to keep off the Republican primary ballot, and if they wish to become candidates for office to do so under the name of their own party or in the independent column...
...Virginia is to hold her Democratic Primary for Governor- a hot-fought election between two state senators, Mapp and Byrd, hinging largely on questions of personal integrity. Last week three Virginian women were in Florence, Italy. One of them took train, hastened to Paris, got a ballot from the U. S. consul, voted by mail, and hastened back with two other ballots so that her mother and cousin might vote by mail from Florence...
...call a strike without first taking a ballot...