Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cleveland, O., June 12.--Amid a bedlam of shouting and noise that rivaled that of previous years, for the first time since the convention started, General Charles Gates Dawes of Illinois, was nominated tonight as the Republican candidate for vice-president. The third ballot saw a landslide of votes to the financier's faction after Governor Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois had refused the nomination that was tendered to him on the second ballot...
...evening's session began with Public Hall jammed to capacity. Wild applause and cheering greeted every speaker and the roll, call of states, on the last ballot especially, was accomplished only with difficulty. Judge William S. Kenyon of Iowa, reputed this afternoon to have the backing of President Coolidge, was well supported on the first ballot, which was divided between a great number of candidates...
...next ballot, however, saw Governor Lowden coming to the fore. Despite, his repeated assurances that he was not a candidate, the delegates flocked to his banner, and amid riotous applause, his nomination was announced. Uncertainty as to his acceptance was still so strong, however, that a recess was declared during which Chairman F. W. Mondell of Wyoming, communicated with the ex-governor of Illinois...
...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. Candidates for the Board of Overseers, five to be elected, are as follows...
...result of a postal ballot, John Davis Lodge '25, of Washington, D. C., was elected yesterday to the presidency of the Cercle Francais for the coming year. Other officers elected were Ernest Aselin Jr. '26, of New York, N. Y. vice-president; Richard Stoddard Aldrich '25, of Brookline, treasurer; Charles Coudert Nast '25, of New York, N. Y., secretary...