Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alfred E. Smith carried Massachusetts because, among other reasons, the state is overwhelmingly opposed to prohibition. In response to a question on the ballots, 33 out of 40 senatorial districts instructed their senators to vote for a resolution requesting Congress to take action for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. A wet vote of 619,000 glaringly opposed a dry vote of 347,910. Only three districts, rural and suburban, showed dry majorities. In the other four districts the question did not appear on the ballot...
...Richard counted up 28 seats for his party, against the Government's 12 in a Parliament of 40. Gallant, the man with the Hoover-tipped collar attributed his victory to "Newfoundland's womanhood"-since this is the first election in which Newfoundland women have had the ballot. Some 30,000 maids and matrons, all of whom had to be over 25, voted for "dollars and cents," or in U. S. parlance "Prosperity...
Doctor D. L. Marsh, president of Boston University presides at the meeting, and the winner of the debate will be decided by ballot vote of the audience...
...ballots will have the names of the three leading candidates for the presidency printed on them and in order to vote a student need only mark his choice and sign the ballot. These signatures will be kept absolutely confidential, and will be used only in order to prevent duplicate voting and the use of fictitious names. There will also be a blank space in which the name of a candidate not printed on the ballot may be inserted. The three men who will have their names on the pasteboards will be Herbert Hoover, Alfred E. Smith and Norman Thomas...
...Trial. It was an example of unassailable belief which seemed inconceivable in this United States of today; and hopefully it was thought confined to Tennessee. A similar anti-evolution bill failed of passage in Florida. But Arkansas has gone further than to place an anti-evolution bill on the ballot for referendum. The municipal government of Little Rock has given unimpeachable evidence that agitation against such a measure is not there the inalienable right of any citizen of the United States. The Atheism Association may be wrong and intolerant themselves in the beliefs they hold. But amazing and munificent publicity...