Word: voted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shock, No Surprise. The congressional reaction was privately violent. Bob Taft was critical because the President had not mentioned a bigger air force. Illinois Republican Leo Allen, who has kept U.M.T. bottled up in his House Rules Committee, said coldly that there was "no more prospect" for a vote now than there had been before. The President was damned on all sides. In a normal world, his program would have sunk without a trace...
...solution now proposed left some other questions unanswered. The trusteeship plan seemed to exclude the Soviet Union from the Middle East. The plan could be passed by a two-thirds vote of the General Assembly; a Russion veto could not kill it. The troops to police Palestine could be supplied by the Trusteeship Council. But where would the troops come from...
...danger point in this position at the moment is Italy. It is inconceivable that the U.S. should admit the possibility of the Communists taking over Italy. 'Yes,' Americans say, 'but suppose the Italians vote Communist? Suppose they freely choose Communism? How can we interfere then without refuting the very principles of democracy which we are proposing to defend...
...election emphasis from the heavily Communist cities (where minds seem already made up) to the countryside. Out in the hill villages, living in bleak cottages and scratching a bare living from the thin soil of the peninsula, the poverty-stricken paesano was the man of the hour. His vote might tip the scales...
With fewer than half the 921-girl student body voting yesterday afternoon, balloting on the issues raised at the meeting has been extended to span vacation week. Final votes will be gathered during the week of April 5, and official results will be released before April 10. A majority of the entire college must vote for any proposition to pass...