Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Requiring a minimum of 20 signatures for verification of nominations, the petitions may not be signed by more than two members of the particular House. Ballot slates will be announced in the CRIMSON February...
...veteran group's poll last month for Shaw as an author and for English satire and sophisticated comedy as a category, students will get a compromise from the veterans in the non-comic "St. Joan," while the HDC blithely ignores the lowly position of modern sociological drama on the ballot and proceeds with Odets. This puts it up to students themselves to demonstrate, on the one hand, if they will back up lunch-time enthusiasm with action at the box-office, and on the other, if the poll-answerers comprise the bulk of undergraduate theater-goers...
...Ball's four labor bills would give so much "excess power" to capital that labor would be back to the bedrock days of the 19203, and the U.S. economy with it. Stassen's key suggestion: a strike should be called only if authorized by a secret ballot taken after all negotiations had failed. Snapped Ohio's Taft:-"I see no objection to it, but as a solution of the labor problem, I think it is trivial...
...irony was not lost on the Parliament's few true democrats. The essence of a democratic popular election is a secret ballot, but most of the members of this Parliament had been chosen in a terror-ridden election in which most voters had cast open ballots in plain view of the Government's poll watchers (TIME, Jan. 27). On the other hand, democratic practice usually calls for an open vote by elected representatives, so that their constituents can check up on them. Poland's rulers have just reversed Western democratic procedure...
Widespread apathy contrasted with these cases. Low unit on the poll was Dudley, where only 47 out of a possible 300 votes were registered. Ballot-box custodians reported complete scorn in many cases. Yardlings plagued vote-tailliers with numerous "go to hell" comments, while among the Houses, Kirkland stood out for several charges of "clique" written in on the ballots...