Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, while Adenauer gasped at its impudence, the usually compliant Bundestag balked. On the first ballot 171 Deputies abstained, including members of the C.D.U., and 41 other Deputies bolted to vote for roly-poly Ernst Lemmer, a C.D.U. leader in West Berlin. This was one way of showing their dissatisfaction with Adenauer's "giveaway" of the Saar to the French...
...effect, however, was to stiffen Adenauer's iron determination. Back in the caucus room after the first ballot, he shook his fist at the C.D.U. Deputies and shouted: "Some people in this room, some people in my own party voted against Gerstenmaier. If I find out who they were, they'll take the consequences...
Then he shooed his followers back into the Chamber. Again Gerstenmaier failed of a majority. He finally made it on the third ballot, which under the rules requires no majority, but simply awards the post to the leading candidate. The vote: Gerstenmaier 204, Lemmer 190. The new Speaker, having torn up his confident acceptance speech, made a sad little talk, declaring that he hoped to be able "to win the confidence of the Chamber." The old Chancellor drove off impatiently to a political meeting in Limburg and explained his being three hours late by growling: "I have just come from...
Although he was not even on the ballot, Dewey in effect was fighting for his political life in the New York gubernatorial election. Presidential ambitions die hard in American politicians. Even Dewey, that most realistic of political realists, still seems to cherish a faint hope, despite his two earlier defeats. At least he seems to have cherished it until November...
...Western Hemisphere stability: with minor local exceptions, the voting was peaceful and orderly, and moderates and anti-Communists did better with the voters than extremists of either the left or right wing. The big winners: ¶ Brazil's conservative President Joao Cafe Filho, though not on any ballot, significantly bested the politically potent ghost of the late President Getulio Vargas. After Vargas' suicide in August, ultra-nationalists and Communists rallied around congressional candidates running in Vargas' name; pro-U.S. moderates backed Cafe Filho. But not even Vargas' rabble-rousing former Labor Minister, Joao ("Jango") Goulart...