Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...qualities most needed in the new General, electors knelt for the prescribed hour of prayer and meditation. The hour past, each elector read the oath: "I swear that my vote has been guided only by the interest of the Church and the Society of Jesus," dropped his ballot...
...paragraph at the top of the ballot, which will appear in the registration envelopes of all returning members of '46, states: "Unlike past polls this one is primarily serious. Since the poll is completely anonymous, frank answers to frank questions are expected. However, if you think we have no business asking you certain questions, you have a perfect right to ignore them...
...serious moments, V.F.W. members crammed into Boston Arena to cast votes for: 1) old-age pensions for World War I veterans, 2) keeping the atomic bomb secret; against: 1) increased immigration, 2) Communists on the ballot, 3) taking a stand on merger of the armed services. As their next national commander the veterans chose Oregon's Louis E. Starr, 48, World War I infantryman, Portland lawyer. World War II veterans failed to win a major national office...
...agree with Abe Lincoln, whom you quote in this article, that "among freemen there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet. . . ." But desperate circumstance sometimes requires desperate remedy. All that the G.I.s of Athens, Tenn. wanted was a fair count of their votes. And, more power to them, that is what they...
Last week the voters crossed them off the G.O.P. ballot, in a sweep which was a resounding rebuke to the A.L.P. and the C.I.O.'s P.A.C. They also retired Republican Representative Joseph Clark Baldwin, who had often voted with the New Deal and played a more sedate game of footy with the vociferous P.A.C. In Joe Baldwin's place they nominated State Senator Frederic R. Coudert Jr., a staunch conservative who had Governor Thomas E. Dewey's backing. In two other key New York City primaries, P.A.C.-backed candidates were also snowed under. Republicans were feeling good...