Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women in the armed services would be deprived of the vote in 1944. Analyzing the states' cumbersome absentee-voting methods, he pointed out that only 17 states have scheduled legislative sessions to simplify these procedures. The solution, said the President, is a federal ballot, as provided in the bills sponsored in the Senate by Illinois' Scott Lucas and Rhode Island's Theodore Green, and in the House by Texas' handsome young (29) Eugene Worley, a Navy lieutenant commander who has seen service in the South Pacific...
...Senate, two days before, Ohio's Republican Robert Taft had charged that Secretaries Stimson and Knox, in arguing for the federal ballot, had shown that they "are today running for a fourth term" because they regard themselves as indispensable to the conduct of the war. But after the Roosevelt message, balding, humorless Bob Taft, ordinarily dry and legal in manner, leaped up with red face and flailing arms. He called the President's message a "direct insult" to Congress, and charged that the President is planning to line up soldiers for the Fourth Term "as the WPA workers...
Lowell House Freshmen will ballot today, probably at lunch, for their representatives in the permanent Freshman Committee for the Class of 1947. Dunster, Adams, Eliot, Kirkland, and Dudley have all selected their committeemen, and the Lowell elections will fill out the group...
...version of the bill which he stubbornly defended for six days last month. He was now ready to be sweetly reasonable toward the equally stubborn Republicans who had fought his bill. This time, Senator Lucas felt, he had a measure to resolve all objections. His would-be Federal War Ballot Commission need not infringe on States' rights. Acting as a mere administrative office for the Army & Navy, the Commission could send out ballots, collect them, and pass them along to the states for counting...
...last ballot in Kentucky was hardly counted when the four-year locusts of Republican politics blackened the horizon to blight the victory crops...