Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secret Ballot...
...record straight in one area of your fair and objective article. It makes it appear as if I found the Screen Actors Guild "thoroughly infiltrated by Communists." This is not so. There undoubtedly were Communists in the guild, but because of our use of a secret ballot, they were never a factor. Indeed, it was the guild that was one of the leaders in the successful fight to keep the film industry from falling under the domination of other unions that were Communist dominated. I am proud of my long association with the guild, and would not want any inadvertent...
...Actually, Lindsay's total $140,000 inheritance is exceeded by the annual return alone on Bobby's fortune of perhaps $15 million.) What brought them together, after they patched up an unseemly fracas over whether Lindsay had been rude to Kennedy, is a proposition on the November ballot for voter approval of Lindsay's new civilian-dominated police-review board, which has come under heavy attack by conservatives who consider it a crimp in police efficiency. Lindsay and Kennedy, together with New York's elder statesman, G.O.P. Senator Jacob Javits, have joined forces to support...
...November, 327 statewide propositions will appear on the ballot in 46 states, plus countless others on local ballots, many of them placed there by citizens' petition campaigns. Thanks to petitions, New York City voters will decide on the city's new civilian-dominated police review board, Nebraskans will vote on the state's recently enacted income tax laws, and Columbus residents will determine whether they want to keep their old Central Market - even though it has already been razed. In California, where petitioners succeeded in getting a dubious anti-obscenity measure on the ballot (TIME, Sept...
...least of the questions up for consideration are two California Supreme Court decisions that threw out the voters' overwhelming approval of state constitutional amendments. When Californians went to the ballot box and banned pay TV, ruled the state court, they violated the First Amendment right of free expression. When they toppled laws barring racial discrimination in the sale or rental of private housing, said the court, their vote amounted to discriminatory "state action" that violated the equal-protection clause of the 14th Amendment. Now the nation's top court must decide whether to review those decisions...