Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King of the Hellenes last week. The Hellenes had voted him back onto the Greek Throne from which they drove him twelve years ago. All Greek elections are conducted with terrorist methods and the latest plebiscite was no exception. As a voter one could drop into the ballot box a blue vote for George II and please General George Kondylis, the Dictator who is bringing him back to Athens, or one could cast a red ballot for the Republic and get roughed up. Some 98% of the ballots were royal blue and members of the Athens rabble were easily induced...
...also working overtime, verbal postures of British electioneers, the pained uproar of Continental editors, and the general Homeric hubbub of last week were vastly flattering to the British voter, made him glow with a feeling that his Government, to create such a stir, must indeed deserve many a ballot. Electioneerings...
...savage strike last year under bellicose Francis J. Gorman, a number of Federal and local unions plus the State Federations of Utah, Wisconsin and Oregon have all gone on record for an out & out Labor Party to put up a united Labor front at the ballot boxes. But the policy of Boss William Green and most of his lieutenants has been that of a ward leader: "Reward your friends and punish your enemies." At last week's meeting President Green squashed the Labor Party agitation in his keynote address by replying to advice sent last summer from the Comintern...
...York Times's Charles A. Selden: "A general election before Christmas, probably at the end of next month. . . . The election campaign will consist of maneuvering to win those 11,000,000 voters who went on record this year in the peace ballot referendum in favor of sup porting the League of Nations. Incident ally . . . 6,000,000 voted for military sanctions. . . . There is no other question of British politics, domestic or foreign, on which the will of the people is so definitely known by the politicians. The number of these Britons who have declared for the League exceeds...
...heard and believed reports current in Wall Street, Thread-needle Street and on the Paris Bourse that a secret deal had in fact been made between the Italian and British Governments (see col. i). In the United Kingdom no hint of this reached the mass of voters who must ballot before this time next year in General Election...