Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democratic primaries, announcing that if he won both he would run for whichever party gave him the higher vote. (Wisconsin law provides that candidates cannot run under two labels.) This proposal angered both regular party organizations because it meant depriving one of them of a place on the ballot. The Republican organization put up Milwaukee Manufacturer Julius Heil. Democratic chieftains and the State New Deal machine got behind young Jerome Fox, who resigned his job as an HOLC attorney to make the race as a Roosevelt man. Coalitionist Henry, no New Dealer and deeming the Republican nomination better than...
...Czechoslovak armed forces, gendarmerie, police, customs officials and frontier guards be withdrawn from the areas which Dictator Hitler red-inked. While neither German nor Czechoslovak armed forces would be permitted in plebiscite areas while the voting took place on or before November 25, according to the Demands, the ballot would be restricted to people who lived in these areas on October 28, 1918 or were born there before that date...
...Washington, New Deal Senator Homer T. Bone, despite some ballot-crossing by "Pro-American" Republicans, easily beat Otto A. Case, a Townsend Planner. Republican Ewing D. Colvin, Seattle attorney, was selected to try to crunch Mr. Bone...
...race for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Maryland were Mayor Howard W. Jackson of Baltimore and Attorney General Herbert R. O'Conor. So close were totals of county delegates instructed to vote for them at the State nominating convention Sept. 28 that last week after every last ballot had been counted the final decision lay in the result of an Allegheny County recount and the "third-choice" vote of Prince George's County...
...that the plan would tax Californians at least $1,315,766,400 in real U. S. money each year ($625 each from all working Californians*.), "$30 Every Thursday'' was no daydream politically. Close to 800,000 signatures were obtained for petitions to put it on the November ballot and last week, day after Californians went to the primary polls, the State Supreme Court announced there was nothing wrong with the form of the petitions, on the ballot it must go. Candidate Downey, who had plumped for the scrip plan and adopted its slogans ("Life Begins...