Word: votes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they argued, as the champion of labor and the Negro. What they meant was that labor and the Negro might have no grounds for gratitude to Harry Truman, but might still prefer him to his opponents. Crowed one Fair Dealer with satisfaction: "We haven't lost a Negro vote. We haven't lost a labor vote. We haven't lost a farmer vote...
...typist was talking about Yugoslavia's candidacy for a seat on the Security Council, which came up for a vote before U.N.'s General Assembly last week. The U.S. backed Yugoslavia. Russia, dead set against the Titoist rebels, backed Czechoslovakia. The issue that bitterly divided the Eastern bloc also split the Western camp: Britain had chosen to back the Russian candidate...
...Georges Bidault, first Foreign Minister of the Fourth Republic. M. Bidault would undoubtedly exert himself to the utmost, for of the three center parties the Popular Republicans have the sharpest fear of parliamentary dissolution and new elections (the Popular Republicans anticipate wholesale defections to the Gaullists). By a majority vote the deputies could bring about dissolution at any time, and the longer the crisis went on the closer came the specter of dissolution...
...Vote Favors Alternative...
Candidates not backed by the CCA have also argued that the Association is using machine tactics. They point to its seeking to elect its choices on a party like platform, and its pressuring officials to vote for CCA measures on threat of withdrawing or refusing endorsement...