Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intriguing minor facts of the GOPresidential race last week was that Lieut. Commander Harold Stassen actually had more convention delegates officially pledged to him (33) than had Governor Tom Dewey (29). This fact will be significant only if Dewey fails to get the nomination on an early ballot. For Tom Dewey last week had another 377 delegates an nounced as "committed" to him. Even without an additional 403 claimed as leaning in his favor, his total was thus only 124 short of the 530 required for nomination...
...Pennsylvania primaries, Franklin Roosevelt piled up 300,000 Democratic votes - more than twice the number that Tom Dewey polled on the G.O.P. ticket. But the President's name was on the ballot, while every one of Dewey's 126,000 votes had to be written in. Surprisingly, no less than 5.612 voters (possibly disgruntled Willkieites) wrote in Franklin Roosevelt's name on Republican ballots...
...Rush Begins. Naturally there was a certain amount of rushing to the Dewey bandwagon. To many it looked like Dewey on the first ballot-a nomination received absolutely on his own terms, and without any commitments. The favorite ticket: Dewey and California's Governor Earl Warren...
...Soldier Vote bill become law without his signature. Ten weeks ago he had called an almost identical bill a "fraud" (TIME, Feb. 7). This time he merely termed the measure "wholly inadequate." Under the bill, soldiers must apply to their home state for a complete ballot. If overseas, they will be able to use the short Federal ballot, but only if they apply for a state ballot by Sept. 1, fail to receive it by Oct. 1-and even then only if their state legislature has expressly authorized use of the Federal ballot. Less than half apparently intend...
Winston Churchill was there to cast his ballot like any other M.P. He was plainly tired, but smiling and convivial. In voting line he said to surrounding backbenchers: "I'm not going about on the bottom of the cage like a wounded canary. Either they put me back on the perch-or I quit the cage altogether...