Word: voted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Miss Gilbert defeated Houghteling for the chairmanship and the loser was then unanimously elected vice chairman. Both will have a vote on the N.S.A.'s national board...
...that remains is the confirmation vote in October
...civil rights issue has been presented . . ..by the Dixiecrats ... in a distorted manner," said McGill. "Thousands of rural Southerners believe that, if they vote for Truman, they will be voting for social equality, for intermarriage, for opening their schools, churches and social gatherings to Negroes . . . This party, despite its label, is really the anti-Negro party...
...only a spatter of applause. A Red delegate in the side-aisle flicked a paper at Arthur Horner, who answered by smoothing back his hair. Thereupon the side-aisle comrade tried to prevent the motion from coming to a vote; but the anti-strike resolution was carried...
...around Paris, that "if I lived in France, I don't quite see how I could help being a Communist." But he glibly disavows Communism in the U.S. on the grounds that "it has made hardly any progress." (His compromise is the shrill and not unexpected determination "to vote for Wallace, even if I had to write in his name on the ballot.") And with the kind of disingenuousness that would have appalled another of his heroes, Psychologist William James, Author Matthiessen insists that he cannot become a Marxist because "I am a Christian, not through upbringing...