Word: ballotings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week Dr. Hofer's fate (and indirectly Barr's) was put to a mail poll umpired by no less than the Honest Ballot Association, which usually keeps things clean in union elections. Although the results are binding on no one, the parents voted 435 to 300 against Hofer. Mercifully, spring vacation began the next day. Barr vanished to heal his wounds on a two-week Caribbean cruise. But with national politics in a lull, Dalton's activist parents are sure to resume their new recreation of baiting or boosting Barr when the beleaguered headmaster returns...
Dewey came back in 1944 as Governor of the most populous state to wrap up the presidential nomination on the first ballot. His impossible task was to challenge the Commander in Chief in wartime; many voters thought that rejecting Franklin D. Roosevelt would comfort the enemy. Dewey refrained from attacking F.D.R. on foreign policy but lashed out at the New Deal for "bickering, quarreling and backbiting by the most incompetent people who ever held public office." He lost, but drew a surprising 46% of the popular vote...
Terry F. Lenzner '61 and Cynthia Smith, J. D. '69 were placed on the ballot by petitions signed by more than 200 alumni. Lenzner and Smith were two of four candidates endorsed by the Committee of Concerned Alumni, a group of young graduates attempting to make the Board of Overseers more responsive to social issues...
...contain few ideas that can be given institutional form-so the unions, farmers, business executives, blacks, ethnic groups, the aged and the unemployed will never vote for their candidates. Only small business owners and other independent types are sufficiently free from institutional needs to assert their prejudices in the ballot box. After the Goldwater debacle, Buckley started chortling that it is far more important to influence history than to win elections, but, alas, from an historic, as well as political, standpoint. Buckley and company must reconcile themselves to irrelevance...
...made the same criticism. In the more incendiary days of black militance, says the Rev. Jesse Jackson, head of Chicago's Operation Breadbasket, the nation's press was like an electrocardiogram, recording every spasm. Recently Jackson fought unsuccessfully through the courts to win a place on the ballot in a mayoral election against Chicago's Richard Daley. Currently Operation Breadbasket and other black organizations are laboring all over the U.S. to give black Americans an increased measure of economic control of their lives. And journalists, Jackson justly complains, have largely neglected these legal and less flamboyant...