Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...class mass meeting is enough to damn it. Nevertheless there is a need for a method by which the name of the nominee will have some significance in the mind of the voter. A brief mention of the position and activities of the candidate, printed on the ballot, would serve in some measure to acquaint the voter with the aspirant for office...
Nineteen Seniors were elected to office yesterday in the second and final ballot, which was featured by an unusually small vote. John Cross II, of Weston, won the permanent position of Class Secretary with a comfortable lead over the other three candidates...
...more names may be added to the ballot, on which voting will take place on Thursday. There will be but one day of voting, and booths will be maintained in Harvard, Sever, and Pierce Halls. Seniors whose names are included in the list of those eligible to vote may cast their ballots at any time between 10 and 1 o'clock. This year men will be at the booths to receive votes during this whole period instead of just between classes
...bided his time and saw how things were done. Then in 1896, when he was ready, when he had found his man William McKinley, he quietly retired from business, went into politics with a bang, and put his candidate across on the first ballot. From that time until Death came for him in his Washington mansion (1904), Mark Hanna, as Senator from Ohio, "minister without portfolio," leader of the Senate, was very much in politics. In Ohio he was politics. Now and then someone was foolhardy enough to oppose him in his own state. One such, Robert McKisson, a Mayor...
...Nominations were gravely made: Long Island's Ernest Milmore Stires, Washington's James Edward Freeman, Tennessee's Thomas Frank Gailor, South Dakota's Hugh Latimer Burleson, Chicago's Charles Palmerston Anderson. On the 16th ballot the secretary declared Chicago's Anderson had received the necessary 68 votes and two over. Ninety-three* Episcopal voices joined in a solemn doxology. Charles Palmerston Anderson, 65, was born in Kemptville, Ontario, did not move to the U. S. till 1891. In 1900 he was elected Bishop Coadjutor of Chicago and became Bishop of the diocese...