Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voting for a President of France dragged on at Versailles, ballot after ballot, the mood of the French press and public grew darker with rage and indignation. In Lyon, citizens hung up a street banner reading: THE CONGRESS OF VERSAILLES IS A MOCKERY. FRENCHMEN OF ALL OPINIONS, SHOW DISAPPROVAL BY PUTTING YOUR FLAGS AT HALF-MAST. What had begun as a "glorious uncertainty" (in the words of mercurial Foreign Minister Georges Bidault) had degenerated into an inglorious ordeal. Although the presidency is supposed to be above politics, it was partisan politics that blocked a choice for so long...
...Washington, the Senate subcommittee that has been investigating the election issued a preliminary report. By a 2-1 vote, it recommended that 30,000 ballots be declared void. Wyoming's Republican Senator Frank Barrett, subcommittee chairman, and Michigan Republican Charles E. Potter agreed that the secrecy of the ballot had been "flagrantly violated." Some districts had failed to provide separate voting compartments, as required by New Mexico law. Dissenting, Missouri Democrat Thomas C. Hennings argued that the violation of law was a technical one that had long been accepted in New Mexico, and does not constitute fraud...
...fifth ballot Laniel had actually lost strength, but came back strong on the sixth and seventh. On the eighth, grimly determined to stick it out to the end, he was only 22 votes short of victory. Outside the brightly lighted palace, a policeman jerked his head toward it and grated: "That ends it-you'll never again catch me putting my vote in a ballot box." The newspaper Le Monde complained: "Whoever is elected will be badly elected...
...constituents?" demanded Assistant Postmaster-General David Gammans. "Is he prepared to say, 'You have for centuries had the right to sit on a jury and judge your fellow citizens; you have a completely free press; your cinema and your stage are not government-controlled, and you have the ballot box by which you can decide your fate and that of millions of your fellow citizens; but you are not fit to be trusted with freedom of television...
Davis was nominated anyway-as a compromise candidate, on the 16th day and 103rd ballot, by a sweltering, weary, deadlocked Democratic convention. (Vicepresidential candidate: Charles W. Bryan, brother of William Jennings Bryan.) The predictable happened: W. J. Bryan deserted, La Follette started a third party, the Hearst press excoriated Davis as THE MORGAN LAWYER (Columnist "Bugs" Baer cracked that Davis' national anthem would be "The Star-Spangled Banker"), and Cal Coolidge won going away. The Democratic candidate polled 8,386,000 votes-only...