Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of the Senior class are at this time voting for their class officers. On the ballot appear also two issues posted for referendum purposes. The first asks whether the members of the Senior class approve of the class constitution, and the second is; do the members of the class approve of the insurance fund method for providing Class funds...
...gadabout daughter José both present in the packed galleries of the Chamber of Deputies, pugnacious Son-of-a-Butcher Laval battled for votes of confidence in the major acts of his Government since last July (when the Chamber adjourned) and won triumph after triumph. The final ballot at 3 a. m. was a smash vote of confidence-325 to 150. While no French cabinet is ever secure against upset by the fickle Deputies, M. Laval's series of victories produced predictions last week that his Government will outlast the present Chamber and conduct the French election due next...
Preferential voting will be used in the election of the three Marshals, first position on a ballot counting three points; second place, two; and third place, one. The man receiving the greatest total number of points will be elected First Marshal, and so forth. For the other individual offices and the Album Committee the candidates receiving the largest number of votes will hold the positions...
...strategy of a Ritchie v. Roosevelt contest might be this: The Maryland Governor would be built up until he controlled 150 or more convention votes. Added to favorite son factions in other States, this would be sufficient to block Governor Roosevelt's nomination on the first ballot. Then all possible anti-Roosevelt support would be concentrated behind Governor Ritchie who would advance as a pacemaker. Conceivably he might win the nomination. More likely, he would wear down the New York Governor's strength until that gentleman was ready to send his managers into a midnight hotel room conference...
...announcement of the "Lousiest Picture of the Year" ballot...