Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like South Carolina, Mississippi also holds a primary-as-good-as-an-election next week. Unlike South Carolina's Senator Byrnes, however, Mississippi's Senator Pat Harrison was up against the hardest fight in his long Democratic career. On the ballot Senator Harrison's opponent is onetime (1932-36) Governor Martin Sennett ("Mike") Conner; on the stump his real adversary was his Senate colleague, squat, little Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo...
Whereas the 200 members of the Families' assembly used to vote in clannish secrecy, it seemed probable last week that a great number of ihe 40,000 newly eligible stockholders would accept their invitations to next month's assembly to ballot in the Bank's most publicized Assembly. All the great rooms in the Bank of France could not hold them and Bank officials last week seriously considered hiring an open-air stadium for the Bank meeting. Last week the Bank announced that stockholders must give three weeks' notice of their intention to vote, must vote...
...Continent is strongest, lest it overwhelm her in the end. Today an important Cabinet faction close to Squire Baldwin holds that "the strongest European power" is now not any one country but the international Socialist-Communist forces of the "Popular Front" which have taken both France and Spain by ballot and are trying in a dozen countries for more sweeping victories. Britons knew what to think last week when, although there has been no battle in Madrid, 733 political opponents of the Government were revealed to have been killed by the Red militia and the tobacco, oil and other important...
...which no one listened. Governor General Frank Murphy of the Philippines did his duty in ten words: "The Philippine Islands gratefully second the nomination of Franklin D. Roosevelt." At 12:42 a.m., two minutes after the roll call of states ended, Franklin Roosevelt was nominated by acclamation, without a ballot. The delegates staggered to their feet, went wild for the last time...
...Governor Landon," crowed Governor Landon through a Topeka spokesman, "welcomes all sincere persons and all sincere parties to the great public debate which will be concluded at the ballot box this year...