Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed Cardinal Mercier, wrathfully out of his Archbishop's Palace at Malines. He not only told the Catholic voters of Belgium in a formal statement that Rexism is "a danger to the country and the Church" but he issued an advance "rebuke" to anyone who cast a blank ballot. Under Belgian law every enfranchised male must vote. Many blank ballots were expected to be cast by such Catholics as consider the Premier too innovating a New Dealer. After the Primate had spoken everyone agreed, "Degrelle hasn't a chance...
Later in the afternoon the House upheld the gubernatorial decision through failure to mass a two-thirds vote to override. The final legislatorial ballot stood at 100 to sustain and 101 to override...
...Baldwin '05, president of the American Civil Liberties Union; Lloyd K. Garrison '19, dean of the Wisconsin University Law School; Corliss Lamont '24, well known liberal of New York; and Julian W. Mack '87, New York judge. The name of the latter is, however, being placed on the ballot because of a petition received previously which had the necessary 200 signatures all of which were eligible...
...name of Mack had been put on the ballot even before the petition was received. To those to whom the petition was sent Bacon said in part, "We regret to inform you that this petition was insufficient, and that the names of four of these proposed nominees will not appear on the 1937 ballot...
Declination of the House to undergo another ballot, proposed last Friday after the repealists had won a narrow 120-112 victory, came when Representative John B. Wenzler of South Boston asked for a roll call vote on his action for reconsideration. Only 20 men rose to support him, ten less than the required number...