Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...direct contrast, staking his hopes on the future rather than anchoring his peeves on the past, was Montgomery, Ala.'s soft-spoken Pastor Martin Luther King (TIME, Feb. 18). Gist of the Rev. King's eloquent plea to the White House and Congress: "Give us the ballot and we will no longer have to worry the Federal Government about our basic rights . . . We will quietly and nonviolently, without rancor or bitterness, implement the Supreme Court's decision...
Harold Hestnes '58 said last night that he expects to get 200 signatures on the petition. He commented that he hoped the question would be reconsidered either by postcard ballot or at a general meeting of the club...
Curley is justly proud of his cool, poised platform manner. He chaired meetings with a splendid mixture of dignity, trickery and bogus erudition. Once he presided over a Sunday evening meeting when an opposition member asked for an Australian (i.e., secret) ballot. Recalls Curley: "I pounded my gavel. 'The gentleman.' I said, 'is out of order. It may interest him to know that they don't vote on Sundays in Australia...
...Populi. In Detroit, Law Student Frank Castelluccio noticed on his absentee ballot that no one was running for the New Buffalo, Mich, township's Highway Commissioner, idly wrote himself in, was elected by one vote...
Beefy Adhemar is a handshaking charmer with a common touch. Beginning as a member of the São Paulo state legislature in 1934, he went on to become governor, first by presidential appointment, and. in 1947, by the ballot box. He grew wealthy in office-but at the same time built hospitals, roads and schools. His luck ran out in 1954 when he lost the governorship to Jânio Quadros, who campaigned on the charge that Adhemar was a thief. In the 1955 presidential race, Adhemar ran a poor third...