Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...collapse. They also shared a vague pride in being citizens of what Churchill calls the famous continent, Europe. The minor squabbles between British Laborites and Tories at the conference showed clearly that the representatives of sovereign nations could act not as members of a British (or French or Belgian) bloc, but as Europeans with individual convictions...
Professional equality is a primary aim of Negro doctors. In the South, most state and county medical societies bar Negro members. Whenever the N.M.A. (4,000 members) has tried to get itself taken into the A.M.A. (140,000 members) in a bloc, as a back-door entry for Southern Negroes, it has been rebuffed...
After windy debate and eight time-consuming roll calls by the Southern bloc, the House passed the anti-poll tax bill last week by a vote of 273 to 116. The House had approved it before-in 1942, 1943, 1945 and 1947-only to have it die in the Senate. The seven poll tax states would be required to eliminate the tax in all federal elections. Southern Senators vowed to filibuster it to death again...
Ordinarily Byrd's steamroller would flatten a man like Miller with ease. But two other conservative candidates might divide Harry Byrd's traditional bloc of 110,000 to 130,000 machine-turned votes. They were Horace Edwards, 46, former mayor of Richmond, who broke with the machine last year when Byrd tried to keep Harry Truman's name off Virginia's ballot ; and Remmie L. Arnold, a pen & pencil maker and inveterate "joiner" (he is slated to become Imperial Potentate of the Shrine...
...some operators it seemed like a good idea, but the big Northern bloc did not agree. Efficient operators would be unfairly penalized, they argued. Beyond that, their connivance might put them in violation of the antitrust laws...