Search Details

Word: ballots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...will undoubtedly lead to every conceivable kind of politics, vote-staggering, filibustering, and what not. Second, the Committee's idea of protesting an election in which the winners win by a slight margin is an example of sorehead thinking. Any man who permits his name to appear on a ballot must be ready to except the consequence of losing by 50, 5, or 2 votes. An election cannot be repeated anymore than a horse race. Third, the Committee questions the worth of petitions by holding that the system is "obviously discriminatory" against those put up by petition, since such nominees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PALS AT THE POLLS | 3/8/1938 | See Source »

First act of a state turned authoritarian is to get itself democratically approved. Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin have all "gone to the polls," and those dictators at least retained the form of a secret, written ballot. Last week Europe's newest dictator, Carol von Hohenzollorn, "royal dictator" of Rumania, supplied the newest twist to the technique. He sent his 4,000,000-odd voters to the polls to register orally their support of his three-week-old regime. Names of those voting against the Government were recorded by election managers. When the tabulations were in, only 5,413 had dared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: 99.89% for Carol | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

Below is a sample ballot for the Senior Class elections. voting will be held today and tomorrow from 9:45 to 10:15 and from 11:45 to 12:15 o'clock in the morning at Harvard, Emerson, and Sever, and at the House Dining Halls and in Dudley at lunch and supper today, lunch only tomorrow. Vote early...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senior Class Elections | 3/1/1938 | See Source »

Sullivan, who lives in Lowell House, is secretary of the Debating Council. According to the announcement of the Nominating Committee last Monday, a petition with 25 signatures automatically adds a candidate's name to the ballot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO ALTERATIONS IN SENIOR BALLOT ANNOUNCED TODAY | 2/25/1938 | See Source »

...request Arthur M. Schlesinger was dropped from those on the ballot for Senior class odist. Elections will be held March 1 and 2 with ballot boxes stationed in all the house dining halls, in Dudley Hall, and in Yard classrooms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO ALTERATIONS IN SENIOR BALLOT ANNOUNCED TODAY | 2/25/1938 | See Source »

First | Previous | 1437 | 1438 | 1439 | 1440 | 1441 | 1442 | 1443 | 1444 | 1445 | 1446 | 1447 | 1448 | 1449 | 1450 | 1451 | 1452 | 1453 | 1454 | 1455 | 1456 | 1457 | Next | Last