Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order to add the name of a candidate to the ballot for the Senior Election, at which the offices of the three Marshals, Chorister, Odist, Treasurer, Orator, and Poet will be filled, it is necessary to filled a petition signed by 25 Seniors. Such petitions must be handed to James A. Field, Jr. '37, chairman of the Senior nominating committee not later than 5 o'clock today in Claverly 55. Thirty seven men were nominated at the beginning of the week for the eight offices...
...courts of political domination. To put the proposals into operation would require an amendment to the State Constitution. Affected would be Cook County's three inferior courts, which would be changed thus: Each sitting judge would complete his elective term. At the next election, put on the ballot without political affiliation or opposition, he would be voted on. A majority of votes against any one judge would eliminate him, otherwise he would retain office for ten years...
Five alumni will be elected to the vacancies on the Board of Overseers this spring out of 14 nominations. The 14 nominees were selected by the committee on nominations of the Alumni Association, and will be elected by a postal ballot...
...collection of strikes, some of which have been in progress many weeks and others of which have started only since about the turn of the year. Many of those strikes do not seem to have been called in any regular fashion by submitting the question to a secret ballot of Union members. In several plants a few employees seem to have started the strike by the "sit down" method, thus stopping the flow of work and preventing the rest of the plants from working. Apparently, this was true of the Fisher Body Company in Cleveland, the Fisher Body...
Elected when his name was left on the ballot by error after he had refused to be a candidate, onetime (1917-21) U. S. Ambassador to Japan Roland Sletor Morris, 62, resigned as Democratic Presidential elector from Pennsylvania "to make way for the younger...