Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expect to be nominated on the first ballot? Of course...
...most experienced practical adviser brought him consoling news. National Chairman Howard McGrath, who looked as if he had not slept since just before the Republican Convention, totted up the "sure" Truman delegates. It showed that the President would have at least 200 more first-ballot votes than the 618 needed for nomination. Most of the "sure" delegates were bound to Harry Truman by primary election pledges; the others could be "counted on" for delivery, however unhappily, by the big state machines...
Next, the Protestants went to the state legislature, but got nowhere. Then they got the so called "anti-garb" issue on the ballot. They passed out leaflets headed: "Where Will This Stop?" Replied one Catholic leader: "The nuns are there practically as a matter of charity. They are needed in our own hospitals and parochial schools." Besides, he added, there were only 75 nuns teaching public school, and less than 5% of their pupils were non-Catholic...
Last week a parliamentary committee proposed a new deal for Canada's 126,000 Indians. The gist of it: make the Indian a Canadian. Specifically, the committee proposed to give the Indian the ballot, let him buy liquor off the reservations, send his children to the white man's schools. Indian bands would be encouraged to handle their own affairs, levy their own taxes, handle their own money. The more advanced bands would be urged to incorporate as municipalities...
Last year TIME research workers polled a representative cross section-those whose names began with the letters Fa-of all living college graduates. Of these, 9,064 filled out and returned a ballot asking 134 questions. Alphabetically, the sample ranged from Oliver Wendell Faaborg of Willmar, Minn., a University of Minnesota graduate ('35), to Marie T. Fazzone of Bridgeport, Conn., fresh out of Connecticut College for Women ('47). The oldest was 91, the youngest...