Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rose Viscount Cecil, No. 1 exponent in Britain of the League of Nations and stager of the 11,000,000-vote Peace Ballot (TIME, Sept. 2, 1935). "This is a perfectly impossible combination of idealism!" Idealist Cecil warmly told Idealist Lothian. "The feeling in America against such a proposal would be overwhelming...
...Constitution, given to India mainly by Sir Samuel Hoare when he was Secretary of State for India (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935, et ante), was tested in its first trial-by-ballot last week. The voting was in what an ignoramus might call "only provincial elections" but several of the Indian provinces involved are each as large as Italy. Out of 350,000,000 people who inhabit India, some 35,000,000 cast the votes counted last week and of these about 6,000,000 were women. It was the claim of Mother Britain, voiced in her London Times, that...
...memory augurs them no good. Citing the impossibility of a candidate to break through the powerful machine which held Springfield in its grip during the last election, he attacked the pre-primary elections as an evil to be removed. All candidates should be allowed to be on the ballot election day. Among the other reforms which he has advocated is the bi-annual session of the legislature...
There was a total of 665 ballots cast this year, of which ten were discarded for not having been properly filled out. This number is almost 70 per cent of the Freshman Class and is the largest ballot cast by them in the past few years...
...passed over the "Old Cart" and by just one vote failed to elect Jurist Kaarlo Stahlberg who was the Finnish Republic's first elected President in 1919-25 and today is supposed to stand for drawing Finland into closer relations with the Soviet Union. On the second ballot, Agrarian Party Leader Kyosti Kallio, the only man who has been uninterruptedly elected a Finnish Legislator since 1907, who has been twelve times Speaker of the Diet and who since last October has been Premier, was elected President. Significance: no Finnish political change...