Word: voter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long list of town officers has been reduced considerably since the days when the people elected a tithingham, herdsman, drummer, and horgreeve. Yet, the voter is still faced with far from a short ballot, for he must choose 16 men to guide the destiny of Calais during 1948--moderator, clerk, selectmen, school directors, auditors, listers, trustees of public funds, cemetery commissioners, overseers of the poor, road commissioner, constable, law agent, grand, juror, health officer, truant officer, and the local old age officer...
...placed before the legislature, he offered all other Southern states a model way in which to count Harry Truman out. The bill would simply keep Harry Truman's name-or that of any other candidate-off the ballot. Instead of voting for President and Vice President, the voter would cast his ballot for the party. Presidential electors would be bound to support the party's nominees -unless a state party convention ordered them to vote for another candidate before they went to the Electoral College. The bill had Senator Harry Byrd's blessing. That night somebody raised...
Gifts of tobacco were ruled acceptable if the girl is not likely to lose her sense of discrimination in the heady atmosphere of a tobacconists. "I mean, I don't want cut plug because it happens to come wrapped in fancy ribbon," said a voter earnestly, champing on the stem...
...treason, political corruption or opium smoking. But since the election was the first of its kind in Chinese history, and since no polls were open in Communist areas, the turnout was rather small. Finally, since more than 95% of the Chinese people can neither read nor write, many a voter had to accept help in marking his ballot from friendly fellows who hung around the polls. It was going to take a week or ten days to tabulate the results...
...shift mean that the British voters loved the Tories more? Hardly, since even the Tory leaders themselves were so unconfident of their party's principles that they had clutched socialism in a tepid, awkward embrace. Certainly, however, the British voter loved Labor less. A month ago, before the awakening, a TIME correspondent touring England by car ran into evidences of leaden disgust and shamed resignation. Said a Coventry bricklayer...