Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clutched a private-wire telephone, received election returns. When these indicated the Ambassador's record-breaking plurality of more than 300,000 votes, Mr. Morrow closed a volume of Herodotus he had been reading in his library, made no quotable comment, went to bed.* Somewhere in the ballot-deluge which had nominated him was the first vote of Dwight Whitney Morrow Jr., just 21, studious Amherst son of a scholarly Amherst father...
...polled the 35% of the total vote required for nomination (TIME, May 19). No. 1 in the primary had been Secretary of State Gladys Pyle, running strong on her personal popularity, without organization support. No. 5 and last had been Warren E. Green, dirt farmer of Hazel. For eleven ballots in the Pierre convention Miss Pyle deadlocked with Brooke Howell of Frederick for first place. Suddenly Mr. Howell, on orders from the state organization, withdrew, throwing his support to Last Man Green, who was nominated on the next ballot. Thus machine politics had routed personality, topsy-turvied the popular vote...
...already chosen by student ballot are as follows; Harwood Ellis '31, B. H. Ticknor '31, J. W. Hallowell '31, J. N. Trainer '31, T. W. Dunn '31, R. C. Aldrich '31, C. D. Dillon '31, W. B. Wood Jr. '32, N. P. Hallowell '32, and E. E. Record '32. These men hold office for one year and come up for reelection next spring. They serve as contact men between the students and the administration...
...first criticism is, for the most part, just, and was an unfortunate oversight. However, so little interest is taken in elections in general at Harvard that I believe that very few would even try to "stuff the ballot boxes", and a good many signed their ballots regardless...
...first made when an anonymous letter was received by the CRIMSON stating that the writer would like to vote for some of the men now on the Council. At first it was thought that those in charge of the election had neglected to place the names on the ballot, believing that the men elected and appointed in the Sophomore year automatically remain as members of the board. Since the constitution of the body illegalizes such a procedure, the matter was investigated further, and it was found that the members of the committee were aware of the mistake, but had decided...