Word: voted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minutes past the next midnight, 31 Republicans joined 38 Democrats to approve the Economic Cooperation Act, 69 to 17, in just about the form in which Vandenberg had originally proposed it (TIME, March 1). Bob Taft, who had a train to catch, did not even stay for the final vote-he was paired...
Jubilant Communists this week were busily plastering Rome's walls with the picture of a Roman Catholic priest. The caption: "One vote the Christian Democrats won't get. Monsignor Cippico, Vatican official, can't vote because he's in jail. He would have voted Christian Democrat -if he hadn't been caught...
Last week in Italy, both sides were concentrating on door-to-door campaigning. The Christian Democratic party, believing that a fourth of anti-Communists failed to vote in the last election, had a slogan: "He who doesn't vote gives his ballot to Italy's enemies...
...days after the year's most dramatic appendectomy (TIME, March 15), Argentina's Strong Man left the hospital to vote for a Peronista Congress. He got what he wanted. Though ballot-counting was slow, particularly in the provinces, his party had captured more than two-thirds of the Congress seats. That will be enough to pass the constitutional amendment which will let President Perón run for a second term...
...gone out of their way to make life difficult for the opposition. But the elections themselves were free and fair; the opposition admitted it, and the results showed it. At week's end, with all their disadvantages, the opposition had managed to get about 35% of the vote (compared with 45% two years ago). Moreover, though Perón's much-publicized candidate Father Virgilio Filippo (TIME, Feb. 16) was elected deputy from Buenos Aires, he ran well behind the others on the party ticket. Among opposition parties, the Socialists showed the greatest gain...