Word: voted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CRIMSON's, traditional straw vote on presidential candidates begins throughout the University today. Ballots and ballot boxes will be placed in the House, dining halls, the Union, Dudley Hall, Cowie Hall, the Agassiz Hall mailboxes, and the Graduate dining hall...
...straw vote was taken in 1944, because the Army and Navy refused to permit politics to be mentioned in the Service News, wartime substitute for the CRIMSON...
Although Truman's party now rates as a slight favorite to win control of the Senate, it will be no easy trick. If the net Democratic gain is three seats--tying the parties at 48 each--the vice-president's vote will decide which party takes charge of committees and gobbles up the rest of the majority plums. Assuming that Earl Warren will be that vice-president, the Democrats must net four new seats. The battle for the Senate may well have a higher Hooper rating next Tuesday than the Presidential race, and it will probably be much pleasanter listening...
...soft-pedal this plank in his party's platform until he has firmly consolidated his power. Eric Louw, South Africa's representative to the British Commonwealth Conference (see above), has been less discreet. "[In the Republic]," Louw said not long ago, "only those would have a vote who had shown by word and action undivided loyalty to South Africa and to the Republic. This excludes all Jews, also the jingoes [English-speaking South Africans...
...Harvard Teachers Union (AFL) voted unanimous support last week to the campaign to defeat "anti-labor" referenda 5, 6, and 7 on the Massachusetts ballot. The proposed bills would ban the union shop, require a majority union vote before striking, and call for annual election of union officers...