Word: recounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...authors pay homage to such old institutions as the now extinct fence which drew freshmen with a "magic magnetism," recount the ban on lower class roller skating, and call the institution the "mother of colleges...
...this week, Michiganders still did not know who would be their governor for the next two years, and a recount of the state's entire 1,869,000 vote seemed unavoidable. By law, a defeated candidate demanding a recount must pay $5 a precinct for it-a total of $21,805. The Detroit News sensibly suggested that this time, since everyone concerned was confused, the state should pick...
...Dewey (TIME, Oct. 23). It didn't; it was King Macy who got hurt. When the final count was in, Macy had been beaten, by 126 votes, by Democrat-Liberal Ernest Greenwood, a retired schoolteacher. Macy, running for his third term in the House, angrily demanded a recount. It was the first time in 36 years that the district had failed to elect a Republican Congressman. Dewey himself carried the district by 59,000 votes...
Senator Glen Taylor, onetime running mate of Henry Wallace whose yodeling and guitar-plunking during last month's primaries failed to impress Idaho Democrats (he has demanded a recount), announced that he may go into the theatrical producing business...
Matter of Principle. In Ardmore, Okla., a recount of votes in a state runoff election turned up the ballot of a Carter County voter who, instead of marking an "x" beside one of the candidates' names, had written "phooey" beside both...