Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Denying that the Harvard Student Union would sponsor the "Yanks are Not Coming" Committee's nation-wide Peace Ballot, as erroneously stated in the CRIMSON yesterday morning, HSU President Alan Gottlieb '41 said last night that the HSU Executive Committee recently decided against handling the vote...
...explanation for the HSU's refused to conduct the poll here, Gottlieb said, "The ballot's wording 'Do you want peace or war for America?" would not provoke much deep reflection and might encourage thoughtless responses...
...supports the 'Yanks Are Not Coming' Committee as one of the most powerful and promising peace organizations in this country. However, the value of a ballot with this oversimplification of the issues involved in peace and war was considered by the HSU to be very slight for Harvard...
Since his ballot number is 57, many battlecries alluding to the large food concern have been coined such as: "Catsup with government with Sendak-57 on the ballot...
...ballot itself cites the now-famous statement of Senator Gerald P. Nye in one of the pictorials, "First cash and carry, then credit and carry, then war loans--then...