Word: voteless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Policy-making was left in the hands of an unwieldy group of representatives from undergraduate teams and organizations, the work was done by a group of voteless "associates," while the real control rested with a nine man cabinet. But in spite of its organizational straight-jacket, which the new constitution attempts to do away with, the Key has accomplished an extraordinary amount in its first year. It has been bigger, better, and more active than any other Ivy League Key Society...
...split into rival groups, each demanding to be Jewry's voice before the Assembly. (The Jewish Agency, principal champion of Jewish rights in the Holy Land, refused to be mere observers at the session; its spokesmen stayed away pending decision on their request to be treated as a voteless delegation.) On one point the delegates seemed unhappily agreed: the stored bitterness of 25 years of Palestine troubles would be freely poured out in the General Assembly...
Meatless citizens would mean voteless candidates. Shamelessly they passed a resolution directing Hannegan to confer with the Decontrol Board-which is supposed to be free of politics. The resolution did not state flatly that they were for McCormack's 60-day suspension, but that was the majority sentiment. They telephoned the White House and told a presidential aide about...
Argentina's reaction was immediate. Her Government announced that it would not participate in further meetings of the Pan American Union so long as it continued to "disregard Argentine rights." Neither would it send a voteless, unequal delegate to the Mexico City conference. "Argentina," said a spokesman, "does not intend to play Cinderella in Mexico or elsewhere...
South Africa's Prime Minister Jan Christian Smuts has also tried for years to temper the country's harsh anti-Indian color laws. The latest of them, which has caused South Africa's voteless Indians to hum like a swarming hive, is a Natal ordinance dividing the whole province into Jim Crow residential zones. Smuts...