Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Congress also: ¶ Advanced, by a party-line 7-to-6 vote in the Senate Labor Committee, a Taft-Hartley revision bill along the lines of President Eisenhower's recommendations (TIME, Jan. 18). Missing from the bill: an Eisenhower proposal for a secret strike ballot under Government auspices...
There appears little chance, however, that the fluoridation issue will affect Cambridge drinking water within the near future. The question was on the ballot in the municipal election several years ago but was soundly defeated, and at present there is no strong campaign to bring it up again...
...record number of 85 candidates have submitted nominating petitions and will appear on the election ballot. The ballot will contain the name and picture of each...
...real promise of stopping Communist infiltration in the Americas. For three tense hours, delegates to the Tenth Inter-American Conference had voted clause by clause on the U.S. anti-Communist resolution, a state paper that went well beyond the vague and timid declarations of earlier conferences. After the 51st ballot, Secretary of State Dulles allowed himself a pleased smile. Final vote: 17 to 1 for the U.S. proposal...
Against whom? Last week's vote suggested a possible first peril point. Only Guatemala voted against the doctrine. Said Dulles, just before taking off for Washington an hour after the final ballot : "The fact that one American nation voted against the resolution shows how necessary it was that the conference should have acted as it did. Now, of course, we shall have the task of assuring that the enemies of freedom do not move into the breach which has been disclosed in our ranks...