Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democratic National Convention (TIME, July 7), the 40th, the 50th, the 60th, the 70th ballot passed. All records were broken. In 1860, the Democratic Convention at Charleston had balloted 57 times before splitting over the slavery issue, after which the southern delegates withdrew and the northern wing nominated Douglas on the second ballot. In 1840, the Whig Convention at Harrisburg had taken "many, many" ballots ? nobody counted them?before nominating W. H. Harrison. But even if the number of ballots at these Conventions had been as great, the endurance record would have been less, for in the earlier days...
...Election of Overseers of the University and directors of the Alumni Association. Polls open at Harvard Hall for those who have not voted by postal ballot...
...features of the McAdoo victory in Florida was the election by a large vote of William J. Bryan as a McAdoo delegate. Counting Mr. Bryan, McAdoo men asserted that they would have 614 votes on the first ballot at the Democratic Convention. They even talked of nomination by the tenth bal lot. But the nomination of any one so early in the procedure was hardly a safe prediction...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt claimed 253 votes for Governor Smith of New York on the first ballot, with a rapid increase of strength thereafter. Smith, the leading so-called wet aspirant, de fined his stand on prohibition by issuing a statement...
Harvard's own convention, held here May 13 and 14, resulted in the nomination on the seventh ballot of Senator Carter Glass of Virginia for president, and of Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana for vice-president. Accordingly C. P. Morehouse '25, president, J. H. Smith Jr. '25, vice-president and T. K. Shuff 2L., will leave shortly for New York to confer with Glass leaders there as to the possibility of securing a similar result like the National Convention. Meanwhile William Exton Jr. '26, who was chairman of the committee on platform and resolutions at the meeting here...