Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They had narrowed down to three: Dewey, Taft and Arthur Vandenberg-who, although still an unannounced candidate, was the popular choice in the event of a deadlock. Taft was up there mostly on his nerve. He was in a position to do some jockeying and bargaining. On the first ballot, Dewey would clearly be in the lead...
...foot of the bandstand. He looked up at a one-eyed giant who slashed at the air with great fists, roared like the Bull of Bashan: "Only by one big union of the working class and mass action can we hope for the final victory ... I would smash the ballot box with...
...very well able to choose for himself between right or wrong, justice or chaos. We must withstand the tempters-in whatever gilded cups they may be serving the red wine of seduction-when they cry from the right or from the left: 'Put your ballot in our box and your sins will be forgiven.' Let us at this moment and in this place give the order to our innermost hearts: 'Germans to the Front...
...enough to shoot him into the lead. And the best that Tom Dewey could hope to do in Oregon was to recover some of the popular support he had lost after Wisconsin and Nebraska. Actually the primaries had decided nothing: Dewey was still the probable leader on the first ballot, followed by Stassen and Taft...
...last week 770 out of 1,094 convention delegates had been picked (number of votes necessary for nomination: 548). Nearly half of the delegates were either 1) undecided, 2) pledged to favorite sons, or 3) silent. Those who were committed or unofficially pledged made the first ballot score read: Dewey, 202; Stassen, 143; Taft, 108. Those who were open to persuasion were talking more & more about Senator Arthur Vandenberg...