Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...represent the public opinion of the country at large. There is no reason to suppose that the vote of three thousand editors will be any more accurate a gauge of the people's feelings than were the votes of the magazine reading public who voted in the Literary Digest ballot. And so if is suggested that a third type of poll be taken, by secret ballot, in little booths, on some "first Tuesday" in November. This, at least, ought to be conclusive...
...around defeated Candidate Vargas. He has charged for months that agents of the "Coffee Oligarchs" assassinated the vice-presidential candidate who was his running mate. He says that he would now be President-elect instead of Dr. Prestes had not the "Coffee Government" of President Washington Luis perpetrated gross ballot-box frauds...
...Smith in 1928, because it goes Wet in liquor polls, the Democratic primary was crowded. The leading Boston Irish candidate for Senator, James F. O'Connell, and for Governor, John F. Fitzgerald, fell ill and retired from the contest but not in time to get their names off the ballot. Boston's Mayor James Michael Curley called for their nomination on an "all-green ticket" anyway, suggested that the Democratic state committee could later make substitutions for the November election. This political trick left Democratic voters cold. Instead they formed an "all-Yankee" ticket by nominating for the Senate Marcus...
...catch in last week's ballot is that Judge Kellogg was elected to serve only until Dec. 31, 1930; that is, to fill out the unexpired term of Charles Evans Hughes, who was himself elected to fill the unexpired term of John Bassett Moore (TIME, May 7, 1928). Mr. Hughes, of course, resigned from the World Court bench to become Chief Justice of the U. S. Next week the League is expected to re-elect Judge Kellogg to the World Court with solemn ceremony, start him out on a regular nine-year term of his own dating from...
...decide on anything, last week the cartel ordered production reduced 25%, knew few members would pay any attention. A meeting was arranged for December, at which time a vote will be taken on whether to continue or not. Little doubt was felt as to the outcome of this suicidal ballot...