Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though aware he would fall, gangling (6 ft. 3 in.) Premier Erlander rose from a sickbed to cast his ballot in favor of a Socialist proposal to provide uniform, state-administered pensions to all Swedes at the age of 67, giving them a fat two-thirds of the average income of their 15 best earning years. With the Socialists and Communists voting for Erlander's bill and the right-of-center parties against, the vote went 117 to 111 against Erlander...
...going over to the Democratic Party, the other part joining the regular Republicans. In that breakup, the Republicans got saddled with U.S. Senator Bill Langer. And having got him, last week they tried to get rid of him: the state G.O.P. convention voted 348 to 177 on its fifth ballot to dump Wild Bill Langer, 71, in favor of Lieutenant Governor Clyde Duffy, 68. The convention vote will not prevent Langer from running in the party's June primary-and no one who knows stubborn Bill Langer thinks he will do anything else. In fact, even as the Republican...
...Wanted It?" The turning point in the life of Franklin Clark Fry came in the 1944 convention of the United Lutheran Church in Minneapolis. On the first ballot his name appeared on 114 of 520 votes. Says Fry: "It was the first time anyone had received that number on the first ballot-but who wanted it?" On the fourth ballot Fry was president of the United Lutheran Church in America. Without a word, he rose from his chair and went upstairs to the hotel room where his wife was waiting. As he recalls it, they looked at each other...
...give them what they want." Asked he: "Does the demand for a record come because you play it first, or do the kids demand it because they find it in the Top 40? If the Top 40 is an election, will somebody please blow the whistle for the Honest Ballot Association?" Miller's prescription for foresighted station owners: "Guide sub-teen tastes so that youngsters will grow up with a station as its "permanent audience,' instead of outgrowing it altogether. As Miller finished his harangue the disk jockeys bounced up to give him the convention's only...
...CRIMSON report failed to point out that, far from charging corruption of ballot-stuffing, Dave Peterson immediately after losing by one vote moved that the election of Alec Dawson be made unanimous. I was sitting in front of Dave and heard him reject the suggestion made by Bruce MacGregor that he demand a recount...