Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inflationary effects of big-labor wage boosts and to Senate revelations of union corruption, and this may well be a sleeper issue working in the Republicans' favor. Yet in Kansas, Ohio and Colorado, the labor issue has been somewhat offset because right-to-work proposals appear on the ballot-to the distress of Republican candidates and the delight of Democrats, because right-to-work prompts organized labor to spend vast amounts of money in registration drives that usually work to Democratic advantage...
...referendum today on amendments to the constitution of the Student Council has one proposal which would greatly weaken the Council as a body representative of the Harvard undergraduates. This proposal, the third on the ballot, is that the House Masters and the Senior Common Room of each House appoint one of that House's representatives to the Council...
Student Council referendums are dull affairs at best, involving a hasty scrawl on a mimeographed ballot before one settles down to supper; and today's promises to be no more exciting. But with as important a measure as the Re-evaluation Report coming before the College, the Council would have done well to dispel the cloud of apathy surrounding its proposed revamping. For it will take two-thirds of the ballots cast to get an improved Student Council...
Shocked by the investigations of the McClellan Committee, the American public is quite concerned about the extent of labor racketeering in this country. Republican candidates for Congress, especially in the states with right-to-work laws on the ballot this fall, have declared that since the Democrats control Congress and the Kennedy-Ives bill was defeated, the Democrats defeated the Kennedy-Ives bill. This argument entirely misrepresents the issue...
...trying-vainly-to kick out influential Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) Chairman A. L. De Maioribus, and by failing to mention anyone else on the state party ticket in his primary campaign opener last spring. O'Neill's last-minute endorsement of the right-to-work amendment on the ballot this fall has put him squarely in the sights of Labor's powerful COPE (Committee on Political Education), which has pushed a registration drive to swell voter lists to record highs...