Word: runoff
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Matter of Principle. In Ardmore, Okla., a recount of votes in a state runoff election turned up the ballot of a Carter County voter who, instead of marking an "x" beside one of the candidates' names, had written "phooey" beside both...
...Vigorous, broad-grinned Mike Monroney, 48, a Congressman for twelve years, retired Oklahoma's inept old (73) Elmer Thomas from the Senate in a runoff campaign for the Democratic senatorial nomination (TIME, July 17), seemed likely to win in November. His Republican opponent: the Rev. W. H. (Bill) Alexander, a 35-year-old Oklahoma City minister...
...race, which was run off in several heats. Both Gigli and Valentini won their trial heats, though the pro-Communist charioteer was booed when he zigzagged to block all attempts at passing. The third trial heat was won by a sporting newspaper, Corriere dello Sport. In the final runoff, L'Unitá's Valentini minded his charioteer's manners-and came in third. Winner of the 150,000-lire ($240) prize: Gigli and La Liberta...
Last week a near-record 470,000 went to the polls in the Democratic primary, gave personable Mike Monroney 201,338 votes to Thomas' 187,243. Five other candidates polled enough votes to force a runoff. If Monroney can win again, he will oppose the Rev. W. H. Alexander, a young (35), sidewinding spellbinder who won the G.O.P. nomination with 35,054 votes...
With the largest primary vote ever given a candidate for Oklahoma's governorship, Johnston Murray, son of tobacco-chewing, brimstone-spitting old ex-Governor "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, topped a field of four other Democrats by a plurality of nearly 90,000, but he also faced a runoff. A night-school lawyer who has never before run for public office, 47-year-old Murray has been a printer, reporter, salesman, cattle dealer, cotton-gin operator, farmer, interpreter, tool dresser, truck dispatcher, oilfield roustabout, and plant manager. His campaign slogan: "Just Plain Folks...