Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Troy last month Gangster Diamond was acquitted of a part in the same crime on the strength of an alibi supported by a "physio-therapeutist" who has since become the State's target for perjury proceedings (TIME, July 27). It took only 40 min. and one ballot for a jury of indignant farmers to decide the Scaccio case. Verdict: guilty. Gangster Scaccio faces a minimum imprisonment of ten years. He and his chief will be tried in Manhattan this week for conspiracy to violate the Prohibition Act. Last week Diamond was at his fortified home in Acra...
Mayor Edwards' foes accused him of having gone over bag & baggage to the Power Trust. The Mayor raised a cry of "Communists!" against his accusers, charged them with being foes of private property. Vainly he tried to get the courts to block the recall ballot. William Randolph Hearst's Post-Intelligencer and the Scripps-Canfield Star vociferously favored the Mayor's recall while the conservative home-owned Seattle Times fumed against "foreign-owned press caterwauling." Many a Seattlite was grieved to see this dirty municipal contest come to a head at the height of tourist season...
...Pedigree. In a somewhat rambling discourse Dr. Millikan said: "The radio is obviously one of the great new unifying and educational forces. . . . If you do not believe in it because you fear its use by the demagogue and the propagandist, then you despair of the ultimate success of widespread ballot governments as such, and you can logically join one of the two world groups, the Soviets, and in somewhat lesser degree the Fascisti, which [attempt] to push the world back ... to the time when the Pharaoh under the strategy of his Prime Minister, Joseph, became an absolute despot. . . . Any talk...
Life undertook to prove its point by sending ballot cards to 5,110 golf clubs, and printing a ballot blank in the magazine. Strictly, Life's poll will not be a true pro-&-con measure of opinion because the form of ballot blank is worded to attract only the objectors. But as a petition of protest, Life is confident that an overwhelming aversion to the new ball will be registered by "the 90% who never break...
...favorite play, favorite film, favorite poem, etc. etc. But it did not report the students' favorite newspapers which were 1) Times, 2) Herald Tribune, 3) Chicago Tribune. Even the Herald Tribune's own Colyumist FPAdams remarked next day that the only Manhattan paper to report that particular ballot was the Times...