Word: ballotted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result of the postal ballot and the voting today at Harvard Hall, the following five men have been elected to the Board of Overseers of the University, each to serve for six years...
...Freeman's election came on the 17th ballot when the clerical delegates who favored Dr. Stires (of St. Thomas', Manhattan) yielded to the lay delegates. It was in 1890 that the late Bishop Potter of New York induced Dr. Freeman to enter the Ministry. Bishop Potter presumably supervised his studies. His first great pastorate was in Minneapolis, whither he went in 1910. The Bishop-elect is noted for the cordial relations which he has always created between the Church and Labor...
...focus of interest last week was the annual Presbyterian General Assembly at Indianapolis. William Jennings Bryan, a layman from Florida, was nominated for Moderator. Opposed to him were two liberal ministers, and the president of a college where evolution is openly taught. On the first ballot Bryan led, and Dr. Silsley, the liberal minister of Oakland, Cal., transferred his votes to Dr. Walker, of Los Angeles, for the second ballot. On the second ballot, Mr. Bryan polled 421 votes, with only 439 necessary to election. Dr. Wishart, president of Wooster, Ohio, College, took all the liberal votes except...
...convention is being held in Atlantic City (May 23-29). The Fundamentalists held a meeting there on May 22. They may try to stampede the convention into an antievolution statement, such as the Southern Baptist Convention, meeting last week in Kansas City, has made. They may also seek by ballot to control the appointment of the Foreign Missions and the Home Missions committees, both of which are now held by Liberals. The Unitarian churches of the United States are holding their annual convention in Boston (May 20-27). There is no danger of their being stampeded into the Fundamentalist camp...
CALIFORNIA: The City Council of Oakland was obliged to take action to remove the name of Andy Gump from the municipal primary ballot, when the City Attorney ruled that the presence of a mythical name on the ballot might invalidate the election for mayor...