Word: ticketing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lowden's own friends in Illinois should have thought the times auspicious. On November 7, 1919, an enthusiastic convention of Republican editors of Illinois meeting in the State capital demanded Lowden as a candidate for President. They let the East have a Vice President. "Lowden and Coolidge," read the ticket...
...look, for a time, as if the ticket were far wrong. From November, 1919, to May, 1920. Lowden's candidacy gained ground at an impressive pace. Delegates were lined up. Alliances were formed. The campaign had money, organization, and the bright prospect of success to drive it on. By the middle of May Lowden had the promise of more than two hundred delegates on the third ballot, with only Leonard Wood apparently capable of giving him a battle...
...will be voted for in the Kansas City convention whether he is placed in nomination or not." President Coolidge did not call Mr. Hilles back to reprove him, nor was any quietus put upon the transparent ballyhoo in Chicago, the immediate purpose of which was to strengthen a State ticket frogged up by Mayor Thompson and his discredited comrade-in-expediency, Governor Lennington Small...
...repeated in 1928. You remember that at that time, after much wrangling, Harding, a practically unknown politician was nominated. Then in the interim between the convention and the election, a reputation was brewed up for him. A great many, of course, will always vote the straight Republican or Democratic ticket because their fathers did before them, and the party leaders are rarely disappointed in counting heavily on this group. Of course if a Harding is preferred to a Hoover, well . . ." The governor shrugged his shoulders sug- gestively, leaving the conclusion to the imagination...
...event that the electorate rejects the one ticket presented to it, a new election shall be held under the direction of the Court of Appeals. This body shall supervise the drafting of two or more new tickets, and whichever one of these receives the most votes shall be declared elected in its entirety...