Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most valuable political heritage Huey Long left behind was a set of election laws which gave absolute control to the party in power of every ballot box and polling place in Louisiana. While nobody had ever tested it, it looked as if all the "ins" had to do was pull the trigger and hang on forever. Long before last week's primary it had been decided who among the Long survivors were going to get the benefit of this election device. In view of faithful stooge service, Governor Oscar Kelly Allen was to go to Washington until January...
...resigned his job to his meek Secretary of State Jose A. Barnet y Vina-gres (TIME, Dec. 23). Of all the dozen "sectors" and their might-have-been candidates who once shrilled for Cuba's attention, only Gomez and Menocal last week actually ran for President. As the ballots were counted by the lazy and inefficient clerks, it appeared more & more certain that Gomez had won. This week, four days & nights after the voting ended, the Government did not yet have final returns. But Gomez' Fusion ticket was well in the lead in the voting for President...
...executive and legislative branches of the Government is subject to judicial restraint, the only check upon our own exercise of power is our own sense of self-restraint. For the removal of unwise laws from the statute books appeal lies not to the courts but to the ballot and to the processes of democratic government." Said Mr. Justice Roberts for the majority: "It is sometimes said that the Court assumes a power to overrule or control the action of the people's representatives. This is a misconception. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land, ordained and established...
Remaining two issues on the ballot, government crop control and automobile traffic, will be discussed the following weeks, while it is planned to distribute further sets of ballots during the succeeding months...
...that the results are inconclusive because of the difficulty of replaying to the question by a simple "yes" or "no." Two persons each in favor of old-age insurance but each opposed to any plan approaching that of Mr. Townsend would have been in a position to mark their ballot either...