Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...means of increasing the vote in national elections,* New York's Democratic Representative Arthur G. Klein proposed a $30 income-tax deduction for every voter who casts his ballot...
When the Student Council decided to take a poll on what undergraduates think of Harvard food, they sent a representative up to Dean Bender and asked him whether the University would do anything if the ballot revealed that many men think the food is intolerable. The Council was told merely to go ahead with the poll; University officials would decide at their leisure if anything should be done. Go ahead with the poll, spend a hundred dollars and several months of work with no guarantee that the report would even be read...
...plea for a ballot was rejected, Archer O'Reilly, Jr. '29, secretary of the board, explained last night, "because that is not within the purview of this committee or the Associated Harvard Clubs...
Most of the groups backing the alumni ballot have also come out for a $1,500,000 Memorial Activities Center linked with Memorial Hall. These organizations, which include a majority of College groups, feel that a poll will show little support for the plaque proposal...
...must not ignore the thousands of University alumni they represent, the thousands whose memorial this will be. There is a just and democratic way open to the gentlemen who meet this afternoon. This way is to set the Saltonstall Committee plan to one side and give University alumni the ballot they desire...