Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tomorrow all students in the University will be asked to give their opinion on Prohibition in a ballot which will be distributed throughout all the departments of the University...
...peace award ballot will be worded: Do you approve the winning plan in substance...
First there was Calvin Coolidge. His followers announced definitely for the first time that he would be nominated on the first ballot at the Republican Convention in Cleveland next June? and gave reasons why. In the Convention there will be 1,109 delegates, and 555 votes will nominate. Asserting that they have eliminated from consideration every state whose delegation may possibly go against the President, his followers counted 597 delegates in his favor...
...compensate for these and similar weaknesses in the list, it seems certain that Coolidge will gather a number of delegates from various states now considered doubtful. But unless a decided change in the tide sets in, a prediction of nearly 600 votes for Coolidge on the first ballot does not seem greatly excessive...
...also, had he still been Senator, Nevertheless Senator Shipstead (his successor), Senator Magnus Johnson -both Farmer-Laborites - Senators Wheeler, Dill, Ferris and Copeland- Democrats - and Senators Frazier, Brookhart and Norris-Republicans- voted against the appointment for the reason that Mr. Kellogg had been taken out of politics by the ballot. Seventy-five other Senators, with favorable votes, sped their former colleague from politics to diplomacy...