Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political expert, who asked that his name be not used, said that although originally he had favored Hoover as the nominee, he thought that now there was nothing that could stop the Kansas Chief Executive from sweeping the Convention on the first ballot when the roll is called on the third day of the gathering...
...action that clinched the nomination for Landon, this politician felt, was the announcement earlier in the week that J. Henry Roraback's uninstructed Connecticut delegation would vote for the "Kansas Coolidge" on the first ballot. This was the first break in the solid ranks of the free Eastern delegations, and what "Stop Landon" movement there was collapsed, in the opinion of the annonymous Bay State Republican...
...even felt now that Connecticut had broken that New York's bloc of 90 might cast at least half their total for Landon on the first ballot. Even if the Kansan doesn't pile up the necessary 501 votes, when the roll is first called, he said that some doubtful states might change their votes so that more than a majority could be counted for Landon, making a second ballot unnecessary. This is what happened in the 1928 Democratic Convention when Al Smith was nominated...
...before him, his only opponent being one Leo J. Chassee of Milwaukee, Wis. This was no great triumph, however, because: 1) Franklin D. Roosevelt polled nearly three votes to Borah's one; 2) the name of Alfred Mossman Landon was reported written in on many a Republican ballot, but since West Virginia law does not recognize write-ins, the Landon votes were not counted; 3) in the election of the State's 16 delegates to the Republican Convention, 15 were for Governor Landon and one was doubtful. The only sure Borah vote from West Virginia at Cleveland will...
Millions of well-meaning people in Britain are firmly convinced that in demanding Sanctions against Italy last autumn His Majesty's Government was acting from the purest altruism. In last year's "peace ballot" more than 11,000,000 of them voted to support the League up to the hilt. Well aware of these figures, Liberals and Laborites united in heckling the Conservative Government with demands for stiffer Sanctions. Last week Major Clement Richard Attlee, Laborite Leader in Commons, popped off to Paris in an effort to persuade Socialist Leon Blum to come out strongly for a continuation...