Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Take Over." Young, meanwhile, carefully marked and folded his ballot (representing his holdings and proxies turned in to him) and turned it over to the voting tellers at the front of the hall. Another 800,000 shares were voted for Young by Don Carter, representing Texas Oilmen Clint Murchison and Sid Richardson. Shortly after, Young announced to the meeting: "You have won today . . . We have made history . . . The Young-Kirby-Alleghany group has cast a ballot representing a majority of all the outstanding stock . . . On the basis of an 85% to 90% vote, we will have a majority...
...lifelong Republican, Jenkins has dabbled a bit in politics (e.g., Tennessee manager for Wendell Willkie in 1940), but his name has never been on a ballot. He was a Taftman until the 1952 G.O.P. convention began, and then he flew to Chicago and urged the Tennessee delegation to get behind Eisenhower, "a man who can win." His present attitude about politics is expressed in a characteristically long and rolling comment, which begins: "Apparently my friends are much more interested in my running for the U.S. Senate than I am . . . It's conceivable that the time may come when...
...work-scarred women in rusty black, proudly casting their votes. Among them also were many illiterates who identified themselves on the polling-place registers with thumbprints. In Turkey's confident democracy, illiteracy (which has dropped from about 90% to 60% in three decades) is no bar to the ballot...
Seniors will also be asked on the same ballot to register their approval or disapproval of the class constitution...
Seventeen names will appear on the ballot, all from the Class...