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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...College-wide straw ballot gave Woodrow Wilson 920 votes, Theodore Roosevelt 739 and President Taft 732. On election night students gathered in which received them from a Naval Broadcasting station...

Author: By Paul J. Corkery, | Title: Class of 1916 Watched As Lowell Rapidly Changed the University | 6/14/1966 | See Source »

...January 1916., 1100 students volunteered for the University regiment which was drilled by a Boston recruiting officer Captain Cordelier. A straw ballot the Spring revealed the changed atmosphere of the College. Theodore Roosevelt defeated President Wilson...

Author: By Paul J. Corkery, | Title: Class of 1916 Watched As Lowell Rapidly Changed the University | 6/14/1966 | See Source »

Collins, who lost the convention's endorsement for the U.S. Senate to former governor Endicott Peabody '42, on the first ballot, told the delegates in his concession speech that "I have learned tonight, and indeed the hard way, that you can't always win when fighting power politics...

Author: By Paul J. Corkery, | Title: Collins Wars Against Power Politics; Convention Speech Kicks Off Primary | 6/13/1966 | See Source »

Runner-up in last month's Alabama primary, Clark got a second chance to keep his job when Dallas County's segregation-minded Democratic executive committee threw out six ballot boxes for "irregularities." The objective was to deny moderate Wilson Baker, Selma's former Public Safety Director, a majority and force a runoff. The discarded boxes, all from Negro neighborhoods, gave Baker 1,412 votes, Clark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alabama: Big Jim's Comeuppance | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

...with the 1964 campaign, there is no bitter ideological division between the Republican rivals. Both know that to offset the Democrats' 3-to-2 edge over registered Republicans, the winner must have at least 90% of the G.O.P. vote and not less than 20% of the Demo cratic ballot to beat Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: Parkinson's Law | 5/27/1966 | See Source »

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