Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...union closed shop ban, number five on the ballot, was losing 86,863 to 47,356 this morning. Question 6, regulating union elections was behind 74,819 to 58,348. Number 7, concerning strike votes drew 73,229 nays and 59,287 approvals...
...facing Massachusetts voters today, only four--Questions 5, 6, and 7, the "labor referenda," and Question 4, the birth control measure--have provoked angry debate. Two other measures have also stirred up some controversy, but it is doubtful whether much of the citizenry even knows they are on the ballot...
Last summer, Czechoslovakians were allowed to choose between voting one slate or handing in a blank ballot. Americans expected it, and they condemned it, as they have condemned all the rigged and controlled elections throughout Russia's zone of influence...
...thirds of the graduate students who cast ballots in the straw vote plan to go to the polls, compared with under 30 percent at the College, and just over 10 percent at Radcliffe. The chief cause of the declining figures appeared to be ago, residence, and absentee ballot requirements. Results of Crimson Presidential Poll College by Houses DEWEY TRUMAN THOMAS WALLACE THURMOND UNDECIDED OTHER Adams 156 58 23 11 4 9 12 Dudley 68 41 12 9 1 3 5 Dunster 69 52 11 15 3 7 5 Eliot 105 54 10 6 12 1 6 Kirkland...
...with the cheers. While some folks whistle, others will bow their heads as a tribute to the man who was once among us but who is all too absent in this election year. For if the name of John P. Wintergreen (formerly "for President") were on next Tuesday's ballot with Mr. Truman, Mr. Dewey and Mr. Wallace, the American political scene would come alive, and it would once more seem that "posterity is just around the corner...