Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Porter Hinman Dale, former Congressman from the Second Vermont District, took the Republican nomination by securing 26,463 votes out of 49,436 cast for three candidates in the primary. The Democrats nominated Park H. Pollard, a cousin of President Coolidge, who was unopposed. The third name on the ballot will be that of Marshall Hapgood, who classes himself as an " Independent Progressive" and asserts in Who's Who that he is known as " the Rugged Reformer." His other claims to distinction include the invention of an out-of-door fireplace and activity in movements to conserve forests...
...election of the two Student Council members from the Senior class will be held today and tomorrow by postal ballot. Cards have been sent out and Seniors are to vote in preferential order and sign the upper left hand corner of the enclosed return envelope. The ballots in unsigned envelopes will be the cast out. All ballots to be valid must be mailed by midnight Tuesday, October 23. The five men nominated are:--Harrison Gardner, Lewis Gordon, K. N. Hill, C. H. Hollister and Charlton MacVeagh...
...been definitely decided to use the Postal Ballot system in the elections of two members for the Student Council next week. Each Senior will receive a ballot in the mail Monday morning with names and directions printed on it. Enclosed will be a stamped envelope in which to return the ballot with the vote marked. On the return envelope only the voter must sign his name so that it may be checked up on the class list. The ballots will not be signed in order to make the election entirely secret...
...Council. The five men nominated are Harrison Gardner '24 of Boston, Lewis Gordon '24 of Gloucester, Kenneth Noyes Hill '24 of West Roxbury Clay Harvey Hollister Jr. '24 of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Charlton MacVeagh '24 of Washington, D. C. Two men will be elected probably by postal ballot next Monday...
...nation which, in the last six centuries, has weilded the knife indiscriminately and driven hordes of conquered people to death by exile is now entirely prepared for the privilege of the franchise. With such a past one does not associate the fundamental sense of ethics which use of the ballot requires. These children of Islam have a bad heritage upon which to fall back. They must now learn to submit to the will of the majority, and to tolerate the opinions of minorities of a different religion...