Word: votes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major proposition, therefore, by the Key is that these working members be increased to 32 to balance a reduced Representative Body, and given equal vote. The Cabinet, in line with increased efficiency, would be reduced from nine to seven members...
...wanted to keep it that way. They saved their money, got along without movies, debated the state of the world at daily card games in the town's nine taverns. At every spring election since 1936 about 90 of the town's 700 citizens turned out to vote, and re-elected big, square-set John Froelich the village president...
...then ambled back to their beer and games of schmere and sheepshead. The count: 118 for John Froelich, 48 for Hot Rod. Said 51-year-old John as he began another term: "I guess I showed that young whippersnapper." Hot Rod's grandfather added: "I didn't vote for Hot Rod [but] he'll be all right after a while. He's like...
When all the returns were in, the Conservatives had an edge of more than 100,000 votes over the Laborites. Gone was Labor's uncontested rule of London and its breezy confidence about the 1950 general elections. With 64 seats each in the county council, the Conservatives and Laborites were tied. The one remaining seat went to the Liberal candidate, 73-year-old Sir Percy Harris. In the popular vote the Conservatives got 1,523,529, the Laborites...
...Baltimore (RKO Radio), like a leisurely look into the family album, is good for some drowsy amusement and one or two chuckles. Set in the 1900s, it describes the misadventures of a rebellious young woman (Shirley Temple) who believes in women's rights-especially the right to vote and to paint the nude human figure. Expelled from school for her outlandishly radical notions, Shirley returns home to disgrace her kindly clergyman-father (Robert Young), outrage her boy friend (John Agar), and throw the whole neighborhood into an uproar...