Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...thoroughly swamped, were the minor parties. Of the record total of 49,818,095 votes cast, 27,245,422 went to Roosevelt. 22,323,801 to Willkie. Norman Thomas' Socialist vote (116,796) was the lowest since 1900, when a Socialist candidate (Eugene Debs) first appeared on the ballot. Communist Earl Browder, barred from some State ballots, got only 49,028, ran behind Prohibitionist Roger Babson, who polled 58,674. Total for all minor-party candidates: 239,772, their worst showing since 1876. Scattered votes were cast but not counted for: Thomas E. Dewey, Bruce Barton, James A. Farley...
...compromise candidate: the Rev. Wallace Edmonds Conkling, rector of St. Luke's, Germantown, Pa., who was described as a "liberal Catholic"-the liberal to satisfy Low-churchmen, the Catholic to appease High-churchmen. Last week the convention met again, chose Father Conkling on the second ballot. For the first time in the history of the diocese, the bishop-elect did not accept at once, said he would first have to go to Chicago and survey the situation...
...Club, whose main functions are to run the Ski Chalet in Pinkham Notch and supply material for the team, is electing officers for the season by postcard ballot. Latest returns according to Bill Wigglesworth show Tom Winship without any competition for the presidency and 17 votes on the state...
Washington. Upsetting all pre-election odds, Seattle's Arthur Langlie, businessman and political amateur, beat out Democrat Clarence Dill, ex-Senator, by a meagre 8,885 votes as the last absentee ballot was tallied...
Leverett Saltonstall '14, Governor of Massachusetts and President of the Alumni Association, Explained this policy in a letter to the members of the Class of 1916. Enclosed with the letter was a ballot listing the eight nominees and a pamphlet giving biographical sketches of them...