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When an uneasy Senate windily debated the soldier vote last month, both parties were politicking furiously (TiME, Dec. 13). New Dealers stubbornly pushed the Lucas-Green measure, which would have set up a super-powerful Federal War Ballot Commission. On the side, they suspected that servicemen would vote for the...
Was It Good Politics? In spite of the most careful Gallup polls or the sharpest Senatorial calculations, no man could say for certain how a majority of U.S. soldiers would vote next year. No Senator was any too happy at the thought of ten million decisive, unpredictable votes swamping the...
The Lucas-Green bill was aimed at transferring the machinery of soldier balloting from State hands to a Federal War Ballot Commission. The longer the Senate held the Lucas-Green bill, the more it seemed to tick like a bomb. Several members struggled courageously to extract the fuse. Finally, at...
Everybody Said Yes. No Senator rose to say that a U.S. serviceman should be denied the right to vote just because he happened to be in Italy or the South Pacific. During six days of soul-searching and shadowboxing on a subject which came frighteningly close to every man'...
It had taken Texas' Long Tom Connally 29 weeks to phrase his 176-word Senate Resolution for international cooperation. For ten days, insisting it should be stronger, the B2H2 Senators had hammered at it.* Then came the Moscow agreement. Both Illinois' Scott Lucas and California's Sheridan...