Word: abstentionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In tense silence the voting began. On the first ballot Yugoslavia got 37 votes, only two less than the necessary two-thirds majority. Yugoslavia's Foreign Minister Edward Kardelj and his colleagues, who sat pale and worried right behind the Russian delegation, began to relax a little. On the...
William D. Mulholland '50 set up standards for approval of student groups aspiring to official status in a motion passed by the Council 13 to 0. There was one abstention. Mulholland's criteria are that the applicant group must be a "bons fide organization of undergraduates," that the group should...
Oppenheim refused to attend the meeting that unanimously--with one abstention--impeached him; but in a letter to the club he attacked the "asinine and public" manner in which the proceedings were conducted, and said that he would always "remain a democrat with a small 'd'."
The bonds of orthodox Hinduism are stronger in Madras than anywhere else in India. Abstention from liquor, tobacco and meat are cardinal points in the orthodox Hindu code. Prohibition is spreading from Madras to other parts of Hindu India where orthodoxy is not so strong. Nationwide prohibition has long been...
The Committee's decision was unanimous, except for the abstention of Richard G. Axt, Jr. '46, who has been the Student Council's representative on the group since its founding.