Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...questions," says Hoegh. "He wanted to find out what was on people's minds. And he had an open mind of his own." Hoegh was a key tactician in a group of younger Republicans who swung a majority of Iowa's delegates to Eisenhower on the first ballot at the Republican National Convention...
...negative action, the Council voted 8-4-1 against substituting a "direct popular ballot system" for the current preferential system...
...absence of any other widely supported candidate, the U.S. proposed Dr. John H. Davis, professor at Harvard's School of Business Ad ministration and for a year an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture under President Eisenhower. Many expected Davis to win easily, but on the first ballot he got only 33 (out of 74) votes, was still short of a majority on the second ballot. While delegates of small countries muttered about attempted U.S. domination of FAO. Davis consulted with the U.S. delegation...
...disfranchisement of Negroes by state constitutional amendments that Mississippi had begun in 1890 and that South Carolina was about to enact when Washington delivered his Atlanta address. Shortly thereafter he urged that the same qualifications for voting be required of whites as of Negroes and that, as the ballot box was closed, the school houses should be opened. These sound suggestions were not followed. By 1910 all the Southern states had adopted constitutional provisions or enacted legislation that disfranchised much larger numbers of Negroes than of whites. At the same time more educational facilities were provided for whites than...
...poll of 150 Negro teachers in South Carolina clearly shows their apprehension concerning desegration in that state. Almost three-quarters of them thought there would be considerable job displacement. And when asked how Negro teachers would vote on desegration in a secret ballot, only 23.8 percent said they would vote for it. Furthermore, 80 percent said that with integration there would be new ways to stop equality in pay and other privileges. The group was evenly divided on whether or not they would prefer to work in a desegregated system...