Word: voted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...future, the committee asked what had often been asked before: an anti-lynching law, an anti-poll tax law, a new FEPC, a law protecting the right to vote, laws guaranteeing equality of treatment in education, health and public service. In the nature of things political, many of these recommendations would remain pious hopes. But the committee's report provided a sharp and much-needed prod to the nation's conscience...
...McGrath had no sooner taken over the chair from ailing Bob Hannegan than he had a chance to demonstrate his ability to duck. The committeemen had prepared a resolution condemning almost in toto the work of the 80th Congress. McGrath spiked the resolution before it came to a vote. He remembered that many a Democrat had voted for Republican-sponsored measures, among them the Taft-Hartley labor law. He reminded his fellow Democrats that, when Congress reconvenes, the President hopes to get bipartisan support for his aid-Europe and hold-prices program...
Lone dissenter at the dozen-man-sessions two Sundays ago was Richard G. Axt, Jr. '46, Council President at the time of the poll showing overwhelming support in Cambridge for a Student Activities Center. Augustus Thorndike '19, who insisted for personal reasons that his vote be technically considered for the Medical Center, actually favors the plaque-scholarship combination and has stated that he will go along with the flock on the next tally. The vote of Representative John F. Kennedy '40, seriously ill, is not known...
...result of the Masters' vote, it will not be necessary to sign in girls at the janitor's office, as is the customary weekend procedure...
Results of the Council's poll, in the form of postcard questionnaires sent to all students owning motor vehicles, will be tabulated Monday, and if the demand is neglible, the Corporation will probably veto the Stadium plan. But a fairly substantial vote for the proposal may bring about the creation of the first University-sponsored parking...