Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ballots & Bail. Jimmy spent 25 years building his army among the hard-put widows and workingmen in his district. At Christmastime and Thanksgiving, he handed out turkeys to neighborhood families. He bailed out errant youngsters and toughs, whispered pleas to magistrates, found jobs for the hopeless. He swept into local political primaries with ballot stuffers and phony votes, wrecked opposition organizations, beat off a Tammany headquarters attempt to stamp him out, maintained absolute power in his district...
This is not an idea that has made much headway in Asia and Africa. With sublime self-confidence, backward peoples in a score of lands have seized upon the ballot as a kind of 20th-century witchcraft, a white man's juju which would solve all problems. In Kenya, where Africans were allowed to participate in Legislative Council elections for the first time last week, many a newly enfranchised voter consulted animal entrails as well as his conscience. In India the complex issues facing the world's largest democracy were being decided (see below) by an electorate which...
After the election of Smith and Winter to the important positions of President and Vice-President, the meeting calmed down noticeably and the secret ballot was abandoned in favor of the speedier standing vote...
...last day of the Venice congress, when the delegates elected the party's new central committee by secret ballot, this hidden strength revealed itself. Of 81 central committee seats, Nenni and his followers won only 27. Unwilling to denounce the popular cause of Socialist unification in open debate, supporters of the Communist alliance had quietly sandbagged Nenni...
Less than 48 hours before Christian Pineau outlined his bold "Eurafrica" scheme to the U.N., the French National Assembly hastily supplied him with a timely token of France's good intentions in Africa. In a predawn ballot that suggested that the lessons of Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria had finally penetrated the French consciousness, the Deputies voted to give a limited degree of self-rule to the island of Madagascar and twelve provinces of "Black Africa...