Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agree with others and with adequate guarantees of compliance to limit the proportion of key resources that could be used for arms so that more could go into peaceful goods; 4) reiterate the right of civilized peoples everywhere to governments of their own choosing, at free elections, by secret ballot and without outside interference; 5) emphasize that we seek nothing that belongs to anyone else; that there are no strings attached to our offers; that all we ask in return for reciprocal arms reduction is the dropping of Iron and Bamboo Curtains -the opening of frontiers not only for international...
...sweaty, exhausting weeks two evenly matched political gladiators-William Gibbs McAdoo of California and Al Smith of New York-kept the old Madison Square Garden in an uproar, the delegations hopelessly split, the Alabama delegation doggedly casting "24 votes for Underwood" and the convention stalemated. Finally, after the 80th ballot, the deadlocked delegates began to drift away from Smith and McAdoo, and the nomination was left to a field of also-rans...
...Instantly, Davis' vote dropped away to practically nothing, and there it will stay. For. as Mr. Bryan said, you can't nominate the lawyer of J. Pierpont Morgan for President of the United States." The following day, Davis won the nomination by acclamation, on the 103rd ballot...
Packed Votes. The vote of Ho's 12 million northerners, packed by tyranny, outcounts the free but divided vote of the 10¶ million southerners. But Geneva also provided that the elections must be "free" and "by secret ballot." On July 20, if they feel strong enough to buck Ho Chi Minh, the U.S.-backed nationalists can make a case for postponing the elections, or put them off altogether unless they get ironclad assurance of 1) proper supervision at the polls and 2) the right of nationalists to campaign in the north and try to woo away some...
...Buffet (hélas!)," was the way one French painter marked his ballot. By an almost 2-to-1 vote, his colleagues agreed. Like it or not, the hottest thing in contemporary French art is the stark, spiny, thinly painted work of 26-year-old Bernard Buffet (TIME, Feb. 18, 1952). Painter Buffet was almost made to order to catch the imagination of postwar France, then wrapped up in the gloomy cult of existentialism. His subject matter was skinned rabbits, sticklike nudes, grim, bare interiors. Even his inarticulateness suited the times. Said Buffet, in one of his rare statements about...