Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cincinnati vote was scheduled, he sent in his strong right arm, Vice President Harold Gibbons of St. Louis, to direct strategy. After the vote, Jimmy named Gibbons as "trustee"; Gibbons announced he would challenge the result in court on the ground that Luken had failed to use a secret ballot. To Gibbons' surprise, Luken petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for another election, hopes to have it scheduled by Labor Day. "That will permit Mr. Gibbons to get back to St. Louis," he cried, "and try to turn the hose on the fire that is burning...
...Czechoslovak National Council of America's Masaryk Award for "inspired leadership in the cause of freedom," Illinois' snow-topped Senator Paul H. Douglas, 69, conclusively proved that a lifelong devotion to the "dismal science" of economics need not make a man as stuffy as a Cook County ballot box. Extending a glad hand and a twinkly toe to a comely procession of native-costumed constituents, the old Marine hero determinedly fought his way through the intricate steps of a beseda...
...Chicago last week the 5,200 cab drivers and mechanics of Teamster Local 777 proved that in union there is strength -and also demonstrated why Teamsters' Boss Jimmy Hoffa dislikes the secret ballot. In an election supervised not only by the National Labor Relations Board but also by Chicago police, Local 777's members made it abundantly clear that they want no more truck with the Teamsters...
...wheeling and dealing last week could not give Senator Puyat the 60% of the convention vote needed for nomination. On the first ballot, Puyat got 487 votes to 375 for Finance Minister Dominador Aytona, 43, the energetic reformer whom Garcia brought into his administration to crack down on the more flagrant examples of corruption. Two hundred twenty-five votes went to Senator Quintin Paredes, a wealthy tobacco grower from northern Luzon...
From the start of the ballot counting, the cocksure little Democrat led Incumbent Republican Norris Poulson in Los Angeles' "nonpartisan" mayoralty election. But when Sam Yorty, 51, hung on to win an upset 16,000-vote victory last week, there was precious little celebrating among California's Democratic leaders. Indeed, most of them blanched in dismay -for in a state filled with dissident Democrats, Yorty is perhaps the most dissident...