Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Judging the debate are Erwin Kanham, managing editor of the Christian Science Monitor and L. C. S. Barber, British Consul General of Boston. The third ballot decision will be rendered by the audience...
...never asked me to swing the Minnesota delegation for Eisenhower. I guess what Brownell did was to appraise the Minnesota delegation, and from that appraisal he knew the way they had to go." Minnesota switched to Ike at precisely the right psychological moment on the first ballot. Brownell had made no deal with the Minnesotans; he had simply made sure that they were exposed to facts which he knew would bring them around. Triple Telephoning. The best example of Brownell at work was his negotiating with John Fine and Arthur Summerfield. He parceled other states out to his aides...
...election was a landslide. When the ballot boxes were opened (with 700 screwdrivers especially imported from Britain), C.P.P. had won 80% of the vote, and Nkrumah-still in jail -had swept Accra...
...after night they sent a steady stream of speakers forward to keep parliament in session until dawn; when larynxes failed, they used fists, chair legs and football rushes. Once, as a vote approached on an important maneuver, Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti deployed a cordon of Communist deputies around the ballot box to keep others from voting. One by one, pro-government deputies managed to break through to drop small wooden balls (white for yes, black for no) into the box. Infuriated, the Reds tossed all the voting equipment into the air, kicked up a scuffle, then scurried around the floor...
Within minutes, ballot cards were passed out bearing a single name-Tito. The members were told to underline the name if they favored Tito, cross it out if they were against him, leave the card untouched if they wanted to abstain. The 569 members marked their cards, gravely carried them to the front of the house and dropped them into the ballot boxes. Clerks tallied the count, handed the totals to the speaker. With an air of shocked surprise, he announced the result: 568 votes for Marshal Tito; one vote against...