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...great importance among the hopes for better local government are improved methods of election and election machinery." Mr. Seasongood advocated the Australian ballot, the short ballot, the non-partisan ballot, the ballot with names rotating (doing away with the dumb-bell vote which gives Adams an advantage over Smith and Williams), the holding of national and state elections at times differing from city elections, the method of proportional representation and the use of voting machines...
...three marshals will be chosen by preferential voting, first petition on the ballot counting three points; second, two; third, one. Balloting will be conducted by the Junior Elections Committee, headed by Atreus von Schrader '34. The treasurer will hold office for life. The class oration is delivered in Sanders Theater; the Ivy oration, of humorous nature, in the Stadium; the chorister leads the singing of "Fair Harvard...
...joke, three girl friends of Stenographer Mildred Vanecek, 21, wrote her name in on the ballot for Justice of the Peace at Council Bluffs, Iowa. There was no other candidate. Stenographer Vanecek became the first woman justice in County history...
...sooner had the last U. S. ballot been counted, than Great Britain led France and other Debtor Powers last week in a free-for-all drive by press stories and diplomatic notes toward present postponement and future cancellation of what Europe owes the U. S. (see p. 7). This drive, long prepared (even to the writing of the diplomatic notes) was not a reaction to the U. S. people's choice of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It was Europe's obvious move, in view of the fact that U. S. citizens have now balloted and cannot ballot presidentially again until...
...number of Reichstag seats varies, according to the number of votes cast. Last week 79% of those entitled to vote cast a ballot, as compared to 84% last July...