Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after week, the running narrative for a story of worldwide importance. For example, no fewer than 43 stringers in 40 states - plus Alaska, the Virgin Islands and the Canal Zone - contributed to this week's political analysis of the Democratic position and the current line-up of first-ballot strength (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Time of Maneuver...
...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 large 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...
...unanimously pledging the state's 76 convention delegates (half a vote each) to support Symington for the nomination until released, Convention Chairman William E. Kemp and fellow-Democrats hoped that they were starting a boom that would end in Symington's nomination-possibly on the third ballot. They recalled that their man had won his senatorial nomination in 1952 over Harry Truman's opposition, and carried Missouri (by 150,351) while Dwight Eisenhower was winning the presidential vote (by 29,599). Some Symington enthusiasts wanted to ride right off to launch a national campaign...
When the voting started, Wiley barely led the field of six on jthe first ballot. By the second, he had fallen behind Representative Glenn R. Davis, 41, a toothpaste-smile isolationist, who had been sweet-talked into running and promised a $150,000 campaign fund. When the third ballot started, Wiley did not even wait for the result. With tears in his eyes, he and his British-born wife made their way quietly through the crowd and out the door. For Alex Wiley, it was a bitter pill -administered on his 72nd birthday...