Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very important fact--that democracy is effective only when the electors are educated. The ten million disfranchised citizens in the South you speak of are, I believed you will find, among the most ignorant, uneducated, and illiterate people in the nation. If they were allowed to cast a ballot their vote would represent the persuasion of some Hucy Longish great promiser and petty briber rather than the intelligent choice of a people fit and ready to govern themselves. The way to attack the problem of the Southern poor people is not to repeal the poll tax, but to raise their...
...opinion Harvard has proved that, whether or not it favors war, it certainly advocates aid to Britain. Starting at lunchtime today and lasting till Friday noon, the College will have an opportunity to prove that this desire takes more material form than merely checking off a square on a ballot. For today at lunch the Harvard branch of the Young America Wants To Help Committee will accept contributions for British civilian war relief...
...York Drama Critics' Circle, polling its annual vote for the season's best American play, last week got into its usual politico-dramatic wrangle. On the first ballot nine votes (a three-quarters plurality, or 15 votes, was needed to win) went to Lillian Hellman's passionate, anti-Nazi Watch on the Rhine (TIME, April 14). Next came three votes for William Saroyan's dreamy The Beautiful People (see below), which had opened the night before...
...ballots and three hours of electioneering produced no decision, but the Saroyan bloc grew stronger. Then the Circle decided that a simple majority should win. On the seventh ballot Watch on the Rhine triumphed with twelve votes, Saroyan got six, Critic Burns Mantle (New York Daily News') held out with one ballot for Paul Green & Richard Wright's Negro tragedy, Native Son. The Circle had no trouble producing 16 votes (three not voting) for Emlyn Williams' The Corn Is Green as the season's best foreign play...
...same time Harvard meetings are notoriously one-sided; "Discussion" is often a synonym for heckling. On whatever viewpoint, a speaker at such a meeting is usually as unequivocal as a Nazi ballot and we often resent the missionary zeal which that implies. Many issues of the greatest importance, such as problems of race and labor, and plans for a post war international order, we must work out on a slow and logical basis. I refuse to choose between Organizations with a Cause, and a non-partisan Union. We vitally need both. Hugh Barhour...