Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...truth in reports that Southern states would hold a rump convention. Even without the South, Harry Truman seemed to be in. National Chairman J. Howard McGrath announced that his rock-bottom figures showed the President with a minimum of 900 of a possible 1,234 votes on the first ballot...
...waiting too long to hop on the Willkie bandwagon, and then having to chase it down the road. Jim Duff was not going to make that mistake this time. Political dopesters in Harrisburg heard that arrangements had been made for Alabama to yield to Pennsylvania on the critical ballot. Jim Duff might be the man to swing the convention...
...submit to the people is one to raise your salaries ... I am going to do the only thing that is left for me to do and that is to appeal to the people." He would start immediately, he warned, collecting petitions to place his reorganization program on the ballot next November...
...Strong Flood. Last week, after four rancorous ballots, Li won a clean victory. It had not been an amicable contest: at one point Li had withdrawn, charging that his supporters were being intimidated, had ordered a plane to take him to Peiping. But the Kuomintang high command had bethought itself; the Gimo had sent assurances that he stood for open competition. Scholarly Hu Shih, presiding over the Assembly that day, had reminded them: "The secret ballot is sufficient protection...
Following the Senator's address, the Republicans will hear a wire recording of the third ballot of the HYRC mock convention which last week nominated Arthur H. Vandenberg for the Presidency...