Word: voted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crane estimates that 5000 voters, constituting almost 10 percent of the total Cambridge vote, live in the Harvard area. Most of this vote, however, has been dormant in past local elections...
Only in 1943 when Richard M. Gummere, chairman of the Committee on Admissions, ran successfully for a post on the Cambridge School Council, was there a substantial vote from the Harvard community...
There was much more. But in effect what Churchill had to say was that abundance does not come to a country that tries to have economic equality by fiat. If Britain wanted prosperity, let her vote the Conservatives back...
Labor strategists would almost certainly not schedule it for the depths of winter, because it is hard to get out the workingman's full vote in cold weather. The Labor Party machinery was not tuned up for an election before spring. The shrewdest observers, sure that Attlee and Morrison did not want a fall election, predicted a date around May i. But Nye Bevan was reported to be insisting on a "snap" autumn election. If that was really what he wanted, he might get it, for in the drab ranks of Labor statesmen he was the nearest thing...
...open market price in Italy is about $50). Gold now backs 17% of Italy's currency. Technically, the difference between gold reserves and dollar reserves is not great, but psychologically Pella's stroke worked. Impressed, the Chamber of Deputies gave the government a two-to-one confidence vote...