Word: ballotted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discussion of its previous debate on the subject of pacifism being taken into other fields, particularly by the Liberal Club, the Executive Council has decided that the ruling regarding the vote of the house being taken at 8.30 o'clock be strictly applied, and the results of this ballot alone given publicity. If a sufficient interest warrants, however, the meeting may be continued, as it is the last of the year, but subsequent votes will not be considered as representing majority sentiment of the meeting...
...words of a front page news story of The Christian Science Monitor, two of whose hobbies are women and Prohibition: "The American woman is going forth to war, a ballot in her hand and that which has been reckoned as a political impossibility-a solid woman vote-is threatening in the Spring primaries as well as in the Fall elections. . . . They are aroused over what they regard as a patriotic issue, a challenge to citizenship, an attack on every moral fibre of the nation. The grandmother with a purpose can be more formidable than the political leader or the officeholder...
...march to the National Conventions next June passed last week through the great State of South Dakota. There a primary was in progress. Interest centered principally on the Republican ballot where Calvin Coolidge was contesting with Hiram Johnson The struggle was hard, with victory wavering from one standard to another. In the end Mr. Johnson won by a few hundred votes. Thereupon Senator Johnson exclaimed...
Result: Thirteen mere delegates for Coolidge at the Republican Convention ?delegates which at the present prospect he won't need; Johnson hopes somewhat shaken; La Follette with unexpected strength in view of the fact that his name wasn't printed on the ballot...
...hands with his wife who had helped him in his Rooseveltian struggle. A celebration began. The counting officer said nothing, but kept working with pencil and paper. He added again, and announced that a mistake had been made: Otho Nicholson had won by a majority of 43 votes. The ballot stood at Nicholson (Conservative), 8,187; Churchill (Independent), 8,144; Brockway (Labor), 6,156; Duckers (Liberal...