Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor Pinchot, in which he champions all users of hard coal against the monster Pennysylvania, an exception to this rule. His pointed suggestion that the increase in the price of anthracite be entirely absorbed inside the state mining it, will appeal to the citizen with a furnace-and a ballot...
Degrees are studied for and taken optionally in sequence, depending on a favorable ballot of those already accepted. As progress is made up- wards, the number accepted decreases rapidly. The four chief classes of degrees: "Grand Chapter of the Royal Arch," " Mark Grand Lodge," "Great Priory of Knights Templars," "Ancient and Accepted Rite." These are mutually complementary...
Contrary to a previous announcement the vote of the audience will be taken by ballot and not by a division of the audience...
...July 29, 1882. He is the son of an iron worker and started life as a laborer. His first important political appearance was at Milan when he was beaten in a parliamentary election by a rich opponent. So angry was he that history records that " he broke the ballot boxes in a fit of petulance." This untoward act caused the police to be inquisitive and Mussolini left for Switzerland...
Miss Alice Robertson, ex-Congresswoman from Oklahoma: "Fulminating against me for my ballot against the Bonus and for my subsequent remark that heavy pajamas make our ex-soldiers irritable, the Minneapolis Labor Review said: ' Hot pajamas! Hot Hell! If Alice Robertson thinks that hot pajamas are the cause of the ex-soldiers' dissatisfaction it is time for her to start thinking overtime...