Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ballot I. The first ballot turned out to be a trial run. Wallace led all the way, Truman relied heavily on the big delegations. Final result: Wallace, 429½; Truman, 319½. The 13 favorite sons, with 393½ votes, held the balance of power...
Scene III: the Sherman. The Wallace camp set to work in earnest. Their pre-convention count of solid, first-ballot votes had stood at 200. By Wednesday morning it rocketed to 350. All day long delegates streamed in & out of P.A.C.'s Sherman Hotel headquarters...
P.A.C.'s first-ballot count for Wallace rose to 400, then...
...convention had been in uninterrupted session for six and a half hours. At the outer gates, galleryites were beginning to arrive for the night session. Up to the microphone stepped Chairman Sam Jackson to pull the neatest parliamentary trick of the convention. He announced that Ballot II would be taken immediately, and that, since there was no recess, the convention was still in afternoon session and no tickets for the night meeting would be honored. Even at this late date the bosses were taking no chances on getting a Wallace gallery...
...Ballot II. Ballot II was a thrilling battle until the break came. At the quarter-mark, Wallace led, 148 votes to Truman's 125, with seven key states "passing" (waiting to see which way to jump). Then Ed Flynn brought in 74½ New York votes, and Truman went ahead for the first time. The score: Truman 246; Wallace 187. Then Favorite Son Bob Kerr, Governor of Oklahoma, withdrew his name: 22 more votes for Truman...