Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election to eight positions on the Student Council was announced last night by the nominating committee. In the elections to be held on Friday, July 28, three of the nine members of the Class of 1946 who were nominated will be chosen in the final ballot to serve on the Council, while five of the 17 men named from '47 will be elected...
Last week it seemed likely that Tom Dewey would not get the nomination on the first ballot. The first ballot was set up tentatively as the "Governors' Ballot." On this ballot many a State delegation would pay homage to a locally elected leader of the people, and it would signify that the elected leaders had taken seriously their responsibility to choose the best man. If Tom Dewey showed dominance on this ballot, as was generally expected, he could win on Ballot No. 2; but if he did not win easily then, John Bricker would have his chance-and dark...
Instead of permanent officers, the responsible organization for each class will be the elected Freshman committee chosen first by suggestions from proctors and House committees and then permanently elected on a House representation basis with a separate ballot in each House...
Theodore Dreiser, author of the galumphing American Tragedy, who last week told Columnist Earl Wilson: "I hope [the servicemen] react by ballot or by revolution...
...issue was too grave to vote on by a show of hands. Result of the secret ballot: 300 for the pacifist stand, 373 against. Laymen voted almost 2-to-1 against pacifism, but the clergy repudiated it by only one vote...