Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hanover, N.H., March 14--In the annual balloting held at Dartmouth today the senior class of 459 showed its disapproval of the Eighteenth Amendment, only 50 voting in a tolerant manner toward it. According to the ballot Yale is the Green's keenest rival and favorite college after Dartmouth, with Harvard placing second...
...CRIMSON in making its survey of Harvard sentiment on prohibition puts the same questions on its ballot as the Literary Digest editors are making use of in their poll, it should cover the matter pretty thoroughly," J. J. Burns, assistant professor in the Harvard Law School told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. It will be rendering a valuable service, and will find. I think, that many men who are "dry" in their personal habits are opposed, to the present...
Last year the same problem presented itself and the officers in charge of the affair decided upon a ballot. The outcome was that the dance was held and financial failure resulted. With such a precedent to face, along with a past unmistakably indicating a waning interest in a Junior dance, the action of the present Committee is very intelligent. Traditions, if it is possible to classify this function in this already crowded category, depend upon popular approval for their existence, and the lack of this approval is the ultimate cause for the present situation...
...memoriam of the death of Liberty and the 1,363 who have been killed in the war of Prohibition." Muffled drums rolled. A bugler blew taps. Chief speaker: Major General Clarence Ransom Edwards, retired, wartime commander of the 26th ("Yankee") Division, who asked for "laws promulgated by the ballot and not enforced by the bullets." When the band played the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," the crowd rose and cheered...
Learned indeed is Cardinal Gasparri. Greatest living authority on canon law, in 13 years he codified its chaos. Once he might have been Pope. When Benedict XV died (1922), it was said that Gasparri received 28 votes on the first ballot, withdrew in favor of Achille Cardinal Ratti who had become through Gasparri's influence first papal librarian, then cardinal. Climax of the Gasparrian career was the Lateran Treaty with the Italian State, restoring in part the temporal sovereignty and possessions of the Pope, ending the 59-year-long papal "imprisonment." His resignation will probably not take effect before...