Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your note on the Peace Ballot in TIME of March 18 is highly misleading...
Oklahoma also furnished Speaker Byrns with Josh Lee. Literally Joshua Bryan Lee, his name like those of other Oklahoma Congressmen is written short on the ballot but his words are long extended, for he was the "national collegiate oratorical champion" in 1916. Something of a poet and artist, he rates today among the most effective speakers in the House. For ten months during the War his oratory was confined to a trench opposite the Hindenburg Line. Fortnight ago when the War Profits Bill was before the House, his oratory burst forth to demand nationalization of munitions plants...
...preparation for the John Winthrop House election, the House Committee has selected the following names to be placed on the ballot: Thomas G. Curtis '36, Bradley Dewey, Jr. '37, George G. Hedblom '37, Joseph A. Hindle '36, Herbert W. Horne '37, Chester W. MacArthur '37, David H. Pabst '37, Charles M. Scott '36, and John D. Whittemore...
Official returns, as finally released, showed an increase in the total number of voters so phenomenal, compared to Danzig's last election, as to suggest ballot-box stuffing. Even so the Danzig Nazi Party failed to reach its Constitution-scrapping goal of 67% of the votes, polled 59-9%, a gain of slight importance over the 51% won two years...
When, as it must to all men, Death comes to the eleventh Pius in the Vatican, an interregnum will ensue before the College of Cardinals gather in the Sistine Chapel to mark ballot after ballot in electing the 262nd Pope. Before 1922 that interregnum amounted to only ten days- a fact which highly vexed Boston's William Henry Cardinal O'Connell who arrived in the Vatican too late to help choose Pius XI. One of the new Pope's first official acts was to extend the period to 18 days. Thus before the next conclave there should...