Word: voted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radio, naturally enough, likes to be reassured of its popularity. Two years ago, the National Association of Broadcasters financed a survey by the National Opinion Research Center. The public cast an overwhelmingly favorable vote. Last week N.O.R.C. and Sponsor N.A.B. tried again and found that the public still cared-but not quite so much...
...priests assigned to preach Lenten sermons, the Pope declared that Italians who failed to vote in the coming elections (see FOREIGN NEWS) were sinners. "He who abstains . . ." he said, "especially for indolence or for cowardice, commits thereby a grave sin and mortal fault...
...Hampshire -the first test of 1948-illustrated their point. Tom Dewey won six delegates-no less than he had expected. Harold Stassen won the other two-no more than actually expected. Each side was satisfied. Dewey's organization power was proved again. So was Stassen's vote appeal; Stassemen led in almost every town and hamlet in which he had done some personal campaigning. But in New Hampshire there was no real bandwagon enthusiasm for either...
...election results were a surprise even to Tory leaders: Tory Harris won a smashing victory that set them crowing about a government setback. Labor took what comfort it could from Nicolson's vote, up 1,700 from the 1945 level...
...final vote, wigs...