Word: ballotted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fourth and fifth ballots found Smith and Underwood alternately in the lead but their margin over the others was more negligible than before. It was on the sixth ballot that Senator Glass first showed his strength...
Political enthusiasm reached its highest pitch last night when Senator Carter Glass of Virginia was nominated on the seventh ballot of the mock Democratic convention. A crowd of several hundred students thronged the main floor while the gallery was lined with professors and other interested spectators. Shouts, cries, cat-calls and cheers echoed from all parts of the New Lecture Hall when the different favorite sons were vote...
...When balloting was recommenced, the interest of the crowd began to grow. The second ballot was much the same as the first which was taken on the preceding evening, except that Governor Smith of New York, supported by the "wet" members of the convention, took the lead from Senator Underwood. On the third ballot, former Ambassador Davis was ahead, but after this the three principal candidates nullified each other's votes and it became evident that a dark horse would be the ultimate winner...
...nominations forth Vice-Presidency and the Under-graduate Committee of the Union were announced last night. They were ratified by the Student Council after having been proposed by the present Under-graduate Committee, and voting will begin next Monday at the annual dinner, when a ballot will be placed beside each plate. It will continue for several days after, only members of the Union being eligible to vote. Ballots must be signed and turned in at the news-stand...
Republican. The figures representing the mounting numbers of Coolidge delegates to the Republican National Convention continued tediously. Following the Massachusetts and Ohio primaries and the Missouri .State Convention, the Coolidge total was 860?305 more than necessary. On the first ballot the Coolidge total may well be over 1,000 of the 1,109 votes...