Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...VOTE THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET...
Joseph Stalin, chairman of the drafters of Russia's new Constitution (TIME, June 15). became the butt of Soviet mirth last week. Reason: the Constitution was discovered to have been so drafted that it gives the vote only to persons in the 18th year of their...
...customers for Argentine meat, supposing they meant all Mr. Eden had said against Italy, and being anxious to oblige such good customers, Argentine Foreign Minister Dr. Carlos Saavedra Lamas last month made the original demand that the League Assembly of 53 nations meet in Geneva this week and vote rousingly against Il Duce. Last week Dr. Saavedra was furious and in Buenos Aires refused to be interrogated in the Argentine Chamber. His aides waved their hands and said how could he know that the "emotional" British would switch completely around, and how could the whole thing ever be explained...
Presses now turning out 15,000,000 copies of the Soviet charter, which will not be adopted until next November, were at once halted and the Constitution so amended as to give the vote to Russians aged "from 18 upwards...
...nation whose electorate returned a vote of 99% in favor of its foreign policy was (1 France, 2 England, 3 Italy, 4 Japan, 5 Germany...