Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Missouri, with its House seats cut from 16 to 13 by 1930 Reapportionment, failed to redistrict itself. Hence all its Representatives last week had to be nominated at large, the highest 13 on each party ticket qualifying for the November election. An enormous State-wide ballot resulted when 56 Democrats, 30 Republicans presented themselves for House nominations. In the confusion five sitting Democrats were jostled back to private life...
Kansas. To get Vice President Curtis from Los Angeles to his Topeka home in time to vote, a fast Santa Fe train was rerouted through Kansas. Even so the Vice President had to get off at Dodge City and use an absentee ballot...
...would pick Governor Roosevelt to run against him. Mr. Roosevelt was his favorite candidate, the one he was told he could most easily beat. All aglow from medicine ball the President sat on the South Lawn of the White House with his fruit & coffee and listened to the second ballot at Chicago. That evening in the Lincoln Study he heard the fourth, final ballot. He had last seen "Frank" Roosevelt during the Governors Conference in Richmond in April. They had shaken hands. The Governor had told him he had made a "very good speech." In Wartime Washington under Woodrow Wilson...
...candidate into primaries where he could win without wounds, steered him clear of contests with Favorite Sons. He had arrived in Chicago with a clear majority of delegates. He had captured all the convention machinery. He had confidently predicted victory for Governor Roosevelt on the first ballot. Yet since dawn that morning three ballots had come & gone at the Stadium and the Roosevelt nomination was unharvested. Jim Farley's plans had been stalled by the stubborn enmity of Alfred Emanuel Smith and a half-dozen Favorite Sons...
...What do you think of the claim of the Roosevelt forces that they'll win on the first ballot...