Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Toledo politicians were meditating on the possible significance of another event. Coming home to rest, also to obtain an absentee's ballot for the coming election. Postmaster General Brown found his new, freshly-painted model front-gate mail box bowled over, destroyed...
...Taitt is five years older than 62-year-old Bishop Garland. He has labored in the Pennsylvania vineyard all his life. Other nominees took several weeks of consideration before refusing the post. Dr. Taitt was in an adjoining room while the votes were cast. Elected on the first ballot he was immediately notified of the results. Ten minutes later his acceptance was announced to the press. It appeared to most observers that the potentates of the Pennsylvania diocese had made sure in advance, this time, that they would not be met with refusal. There was virtually no debate before...
Balance of Power. As a result of the ballot, grey-haired, brown-mustached James Ramsay MacDonald, leader of the Laborites, seemed likely to become a minority Prime Minister again. As during his first term (January-November 1924) the votes necessary for him to obtain a majority over the Conservatives on important party legislation lay in the control of that most professional political practitioner, bob-haired David Lloyd George. As before, Liberal Lloyd George could combine with whatever side he chose until it suited him to oppose the government on a confidence vote. Then another general election would be required...
Sirs: In your issue of May 6, page 18, you say regarding the trial of Mary Ware Dennett: ''John Cowan, one of the jurors, was later interviewed by a reporter. He gave the following account of what took place: the first ballot was 8-4 for conviction, the second 9-3, the third 10-2. At that point a court attendant warned the jurors it was after 5 p. m. A fourth ballot was quickly taken: 12-0 'guilty...
...Tokyo lately, 400 university students were asked by the house committee of an English-speaking society to decide by ballot which were the Ten Greatest Englishmen. The plan: to hang portraits of the Big Ten in the society's clubhouse. The students elected the following Big Ten: Robert Louis Stevenson, Admiral Nelson, Ramsay MacDonald, George Bernard Shaw, Edward I., David Lloyd George, Shakespeare, Darwin, Adam Smith, Pitt the Younger...