Search Details

Word: votes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...firing continued. Scott won his first skirmish with Republican rebels at the Omaha harmony and hair-pulling meeting last winter, when he got a 54 to 50 "vote of confidence" (TIME, Feb. 7). Since then he had been trying to find a platform that everybody could stand on, while critics thought he should have been out raising money. Congressmen felt that they, not he, should do the thinking about issues. As the wrangling increased, contributions dropped off: in the first five months of this year the committee had raised only $73,630 to meet expenses of $313,673A group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Disorder in the Ranks | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...suggestion: "A new party chief on a contingency fee and percentage basis. Settle with him after the ballots are counted. Pay him nothing if the party doesn't do better than it has in the last 18 years. Pay him a graduated bonus if he increases the Republican vote. Ought to try something to put some incentive into the G.O.P...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Disorder in the Ranks | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...Last week Irving boiled out to Kansas City and called a meeting to deny all. To reporters, he explained that he had bought one Cadillac for his wife; the other had been given him by the "unanimous vote" of the membership. He pointed out that Baldwin had been fired as custodian at union headquarters. Irving thought it "highly significant" that all but four of his critics were Negroes (who comprise 40% of the union's membership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: Trouble at Home | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

Last week, New York State's highest court, by a 4-10-3 vote, upheld Metropolitan's Jim Crow policy. The Negroes' next stop: the U.S. Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: For Whites Only | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...Prefer Death." The Military Assistance Program (M.A.P.) faced a far harder fight and a closer vote than the North Atlantic Treaty (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Opponents of the arms plan say that it will cost too much, and that it might provoke Soviet Russia to attack. The plan's advocates reply that a Communist victory in Europe would be far more expensive for the U.S., and that Soviet Russia is provoked to aggressive acts by the weakness, not by the strength, of the non-Communist world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN UNION: On a Tightrope | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

Previous | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | Next