Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic Convention at Chicago, Davis' name was put in nomination on the first ballot by last-ditch segregationists, some of whom never switched to Stevenson...
Because Miss Universe contest--could not be present for the final judging, she left a sealed ballot with her vote to be opened at the finals at the Leverett House Dance after the Ohio football game. Her vote proved the deciding one as tall, brunette Carol Corby of New York City won by one vote over blonde Deirdre Hubbard...
Politically, Reischauer found a strong and healthy belief in democracy. "Ever since the last war," he maintains, "the Japanese have never doubted that the ballot box would decide the major issues." A higher percentage of people vote in the Japanese elections than do here, and the elected governments now have eleven years of successful rule under their belts...
...Washington, where primary election voters can jump party lines at will on a single ballot, Democratic candidates rolled up substantially bigger vote totals than Republicans in most statewide races, were led by affable, two-term Senator Warren G. Magnuson, 51, who, although unopposed for renomination, gathered 426,000. This was a resounding 150,000 more than his November opponent, Republican Governor Arthur B. Langlie (TIME, Sept. 3), managed to poll in his primary race. Thoroughly drubbed in the Republican gubernatorial primary: Donald W. Eastvold, Washington's ambitious young (36) attorney general, who first gained political fame...
...name from among the "also mentioned"-Chicago Superior Judge Richard B. Austin. Quickly the word was telephoned to the Cook County delegation, which controls the committee by a 13-12 vote. The result: after token resistance from downstaters, Judge Austin was nominated unanimously on the first ballot as the hand-picked candidate of the Chicago machine...