Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican ranks only one entry is left who appears in any way worthy of consideration. For two of the candidates, Manser and Cook, who entered the race merely to split the ticket, were unceremoniously removed from the ballot, a rejection, which, judging from the quality of the other contestants, hardly speaks well for their qualifications. The most promising of the Republicans is Malcolm E. Nichols '99, whose supporters hail him as the new Messiah chiefly because he was able to reduce taxes in the boom years of 1926 to 1929. Indeed his lieutenants are handing out literature to show...
Davis finished off his campaign last night by geting in touch with election officials, ballot officers, ward leaders and voters in his district. He has been speaking every night during the last couple of weeks of the campaign, but last night he tappered off and confined himself to routine work...
...Lawyer Daniel Joseph Doherty, who was a pay clerk in the Norfolk Navy Yard when he got his discharge from the U. S. Navy in 1919 and who so far has held no more important political job than assistant district attorney of Middlesex County was elected on the first ballot. The new job makes Lawyer Doherty a gubernatorial possibility for Massachusetts...
Fiorello's Gamble. In spite of these evil omens friends of LaGuardia were last week actually confident of his reelection. One reason for their confidence was that a last minute move to write in LaGuardia's name on the Democratic ballot produced no less than 50,000 votes-a bagatelle compared to Mahoney's 400,000 or Copeland's 200,000. but a striking vote of confidence under the circumstances...
...blunder for the German Government to suggest that the dispatches of Norman Ebbutt, a distinguished journalist, were unfair. He got into trouble with Nazis in 1933 for reporting truthfully that many Germans were afraid to vote against the Government in the plebiscite because of the possibility of marked ballot papers, but as recently as 1935 some of his dispatches were reproduced in Berlin newsorgans because they pleased Nazi bigwigs...