Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them to keep the one they had. They did. Unlike the Medicine Hatters, a large block of the citizenry of Linoleumville, Staten Island (pop.: 2,200), dissatisfied with their town's name, chose not to write to a famed poet for advice but to settle the question by ballot. Last week they did. Proposed were ten names (although any citizen was privileged to suggest any other name he fancied): Linoleumville, Travis, Melvin, Victory Heights, Scotstown, Berkley, Long Neck, Travisville, Mellburg, Carteret...
When the campaign was at its height and too late to have his name printed on the ballots, Dr. John Richard Brinkley announced his independent candidacy on a platform advocating: 1) drought relief through building an artificial lake in every Kansas county; 2) free health clinics, including assistance for prostate troubles. This latter long had been his specialty, advertised over his powerful radio broadcasting station KFKB. Though expelled for his activity from the American Medical Association, he has prospered. He also offered rejuvenation, grafting goat glands in patients' groins for $750 each. No newspaper supported him, but over...
...officially in the Speaker's limousine after March 4, 1931 neither Republican Longworth nor Democrat Garner nor anyone else knew for sure because the elections which made the 7 2nd Congress had failed to produce an incontestable House ma jority (218 seats) for either party. As the first hasty ballot-count came to an end throughout the land, it appeared that the voters had achieved that rarest of results, a numerically exact tie in the House. The balance was hardly less close in the Senate where the Vice President's vote might be invoked to break a deadlock...
...corner was a section of a sample ballot with an "x" marked for Democrat Lewis...