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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor faced bleak, uncertain months before the 1950 elections.* The leaders did not smother criticism from the delegates; they simply prevented any resolution from reaching the floor which could not command a resounding vote in favor. Fiery Minister of Health Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan did not denounce the opponents of full-speed nationalization. He seemed to have moved into the moderate camp of House Leader Herbert Morrison. What Bevan and Morrison asked the delegates for, and got, was a mandate to adjust the speed of nationalization to the economic and political weather ahead...
Some 700,000 Negroes qualified to vote in the 1948 elections-six times more than in 1940-and the Atlanta Constitution's Editor Ralph McGill predicted that 2,000,000 would go to the polls...
...guest of the convention, likened the proposed merger to a "romance between our peoples . . . We should not be interested in crowding the situation too much." Willing to give the romance plenty of time, leaders of both Baptists and Disciples are not bringing the subject up for a vote until...
This reaction is in direct contrast to the undergraduate vote, which was more than two to one in favor of permitting Communists to teach, except in the social sciences. The latter tally was 724 to 520 in favor...
Early returns on a CRIMSON poll indicate that the Faculty believes Communists should not be allowed to teach at colleges. The first 182 answers to the same questionnaire distributed to students last Friday show a two to one vote against permitting such teachers to hold positions in any branch of the faculty...