Word: voted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to this obvious inconsistency in its public behavior, the Committee had created an extremely ambiguous internal situation; for the group, not knowing that its Council-approved charter had no provision for impeachment, had not been sure itself just what it had done to its chairman. After the vote of no confidence, Lally had offered his resignation, then left the chair and the acting chairman entertained nominations for a man to replace...
...title would make him "principal military adviser" to the President* and to Secretary of Defense Forrestal. More important, he would also sit in as acting chairman at meetings of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Though he would have no vote, his prestige and winning ways were expected to help solve such nagging disputes as the Navy's air role, the strategic demands of the Pacific, the allocation of military largess to signers of the proposed North Atlantic pact...
...better, if less startling, definition than the one from a man who, asked if he had voted, said that he had but his candidate had lost. "What's the good of democracy," he asked, "if the man you vote for doesn...
...stood was whether to keep the boundary by which Britain had divided her predominantly (65%) Protestant northern counties from predominantly Roman Catholic (92%) Eire. It was a foregone conclusion that those in favor of keeping the border would win. The surprise was that the Unionists (Protestants) increased their popular vote to 63% and rolled up a better than 3-to-1 majority in the House of Commons over the Republicans (Catholics...
...years the Protestants have magnified the effect of their strength by a shrewd drawing of district boundaries, to pile up the votes where they counted the most. The Catholic party bitterly resented such gerrymandering. "See that woman pushing her pram up the hill with two babies and bundles, and her pregnant?" asked a Londonderry Republican. "Those houses she's going to could have been put up down below on as level a piece of land as ever you saw, but it might have risked a Unionist majority, to put working-class Catholics in that district." He snorted...