Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boston reacted to this appointment with monumental indifference. Two weeks later Jim Curley found a job for another ex-convict. This time it was a ruddy, amiable lawyer (once suspended) named Charles H. McGlue, who had been a Curley campaign manager, state Democratic chairman and head of the state Ballot Law Commission, which irons out ballot disputes. In 1939, McGlue had been convicted of federal income-tax evasion, spent five months in jail. Curley decided that McGlue was just the man to be assistant chief of the city's licensing division (at a modest...
Because of the large number of tallies for favorite sons on the first ballot, no candidate came near the required 543 votes. Stassen led the field with 209, followed by Vandenberg with 203 and Dewey with...
...what was probably the biggest display of student enthusiasm since the end of the football season, University Republicans made a surprise rally behind Vandenberg on the third ballot to defeat Harold E. Stassen who had come within 20 votes of winning the nomination on the previous roll-call...
Stassen, the first candidate nominated, was placed on the ballot by Daniel M. Pierce '49, an Illinois resident, who was head of the Minnesota delegation. A loud and large parade followed Pierce's speech...
Volunteers to work toward putting Henry Wallace's name on the Massachusetts ballot should meet today between 6:30 and 6:45 o'clock in front of the Coop. Further information can be obtained from Wallace House captains...