Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With final preparation completed yesterday, the Student Council Food Relief Committee ballot to determine student opinion on proposed cuts in dining hall and Union menus will be presented to Undergraduates and to Law and Graduate students eating at the Union at the noon meal Thursday, the Committee revealed last night...
...M.R.P. and the Right were not persuaded. The final vote was tense and tight. President Gouin cast a white cardboard ballot, meaning yes. Foreign Minister Georges Bidault of the M.R.P. followed with a blue slip, meaning no. When all the tallies were in, the Communist-Socialist combine had won, 309 to 249. The proposed Constitution for the Fourth Republic went to the French people for approval or rejection...
According to Professor Parsons, the revocation of the original departmental ballot--which decided against asking the administration for permission to offer tutorial--came as a result of what Provost Buck earlier in the week called "insistent demand" from the Undergraduate General Education Committee...
...scattered and representative group. The institution of the direct primary as the means of nomination would end this evil. In order that certain other desirable persons be nominated, however, the house committee itself should be permitted to nominate a fixed percentage of the names appearing on the ballot...
...Jimmy Byrnes read a warning from Harry Truman: "There can be no home anywhere for the United Nations unless the United Nations remain united." Another American put it more prayerfully; Council attendants were startled to find that someone had already cast a vote in their new steel ballot box. "May God be with every member of the UNO," it said. It was signed by Paul Antonio, the mechanic who made...