Word: voted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Abolition of the cheering section came in response to a Student Council poll of October 23 on which an overwhelming vote favored the elimination of the time-honored male rooting corps. Final action came too late to affect final allocation on either the Brown or Princeton games...
...Gaulle wants the constitution changed to increase executive power in the head of government. To do that, a two-thirds vote of the Assembly would be required - hardly possible unless some new and worse crisis looms, such as a Communist-fomented general strike. Meanwhile, under the present constitution, there can be no national elections until next May. Last week, Charles de Gaulle seemed content to wait...
...concentration of Government authority." This was a concession to the Gaullist cry for efficient leadership, but Ramadier told off the General, too: "[He represents] an attempt to upset the institutions which the nation has freely chosen." Paul Ramadier was ready this week to ask the Assembly for a vote of confidence...
...Councilmen favoring Plan E managed to effect a forty percent salary increase for all city employees, buy $1,200,000 worth of war surplus equipment for $300,000, and appropriate $1,500,000 for permanent veterans housing. The majority of these improvements were passed by a slim 5-4 vote in the nine-man Council. Any decision by Cambridge voters either to reelect the five Councilmen favoring Plan E or to discard managerial government should be made with regard to the merits or demerits of the system and not because of the truculent howls of frustrated politicians...
...seats on the seven man School Board shows the same irrelevant arguments that tend to confound the real issues. Wracked by incompetence, politics, and inertia in its administration, the Cambridge school system is barely adequate, often verging on poor. The administration cannot be changed without a five-to-two vote on a school board that is well stacked against progress. Opponents of any change berate those candidates endorsed by the C.C.A. with charges of personal dislike and the same bad joke of political domination while the real educational issues remain shackled...