Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question was whether 300,000 votes, or any majority from downstate, could match the Chicago machine's efficient vote-making equipment. Dispassionate observers believed that the machine could count 300,000 votes by the "endless chain system'" alone. This device requires the theft of only one blank ballot by each precinct captain and absolutely insures that all votes bought are delivered. The blank ballot is marked and given to a hired voter who puts it in his pocket, takes it into the polling place, receiving another blank as he enters. In the booth he puts the new blank...
...ready to admit that some of the more recent English kings have been rather good fellows, in some respects. Edward VII had the decency to protest against the Oath against Transubstantiation. In reward for his courage in that matter, he died a Catholic. Having made that point-blank statement, perhaps I had better add that I will not enter into any controversy on the matter. But I have direct, authentic reliable inside information on the matter which I could not as a journalist obtain permission to publish. But you may put it down as a fact-Edward VII died...
...best thing for college graduates to do who lack opportunities and are faced with blank futures is to join the Socialist party and work for the spread of that doctrine, Laski thinks. Questioned as to why he favored the Socialist party rather than the Communist, he said, "If I were a member of the Catholic Church. I would appear very funny if I urged people to become Baptists. Since I am a member of the Socialist party. I naturally urge people to join...
...Blank books were presented for the signature of the Alumni and more than eleven hundred recorded their names. These books were bound under the direction of Robert C. Winthrop, Chief Marshal of the Day, and form a quarto volume, which is to be preserved in the Archives of the University until the next Centennial Celebration...
...first meant "Ja," a cross in the other "Nein." The new ballots rolling off German presses last week to be used March 29 have only one circle. By making a cross in this the German citizen votes "Ja," and it is impossible for him to cast any other vote. Blank ballots or ballots on which a daring voter might scrawl "Nein" automatically are void...