Word: voted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John L. Easton, Jr. '47 was elected vice-president, also by unanimous vote while William H. Gribble '49 took office as secretary and Clive B. Kimball '49 was re-elected treasurer...
...Atlanta Journal's George E. Goodwin, for local reporting-exposure of the Telfair County vote frauds (TIME, March...
Though slowed, the third round was far from stopped. The C.I.O.'s auto workers last week voted to strike at Chrysler May 12 and started taking a strike vote at General Motors' plants. The United Electrical Workers were threatening to strike General Electric, Westinghouse, and G.M.'s electrical division. Three railroad brotherhoods had called a strike for May 11 against 132 major railroads. And John L. Lewis notified the mine owners that after June 30 (when their contracts expire and the union may legally strike), he wants something better. It looked as if the showdown...
...Helsinki, Finland's Parliament, by a vote of 157 to 11, ratified the Soviet-Finnish mutual aid treaty (TIME, April 19) that Finns had not wanted...
Within the next few weeks, Congress will consider and vote on HR 5852, the Communist-front Registration Act, better known as the Mundt Bill. This bill would require all Communist and "Communist-front" organizations to file annual statements with the Attorney General, listing their memberships, sources of income, expenditures, and capital, and providing a maximum penalty of $5000 or five year's imprisonment for failure to register...