Word: votes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peril of sounding unAmerican, let me point out one of the very few pitfalls of democracy. It permits someone like Ross Barnett to govern by popular vote...
...date of the vote, I will fix it in due course-at the latest, four years after the actual restoration of peace . . . The ensuing period of time will be devoted to resuming normal existence, to emptying the camps and prisons, to permitting the return of exiles, to restoring the free play of individual and public liberties and to enabling the population to become fully aware of what is at stake . . . But what will this political destiny finally...
First he proposed a plebiscite to choose between statehood, commonwealth and independence. This idea died when the opposition Statehood Party, which is the island branch of the mainland's Republican Party, would not buy his condition that the vote settle the question "once and for all." Last week, after what one associate called "quite an emotional wrench," Muñoz threw his support behind a new idea: a proposal to Congress that when per-capita income in Puerto Rico equals that of the poorest state (Mississippi's $1,053 v. Puerto Rico's $480), Congress will consider...
When the initial grant was allocated to the GSE last spring, President Pusey appeared before a meeting of the Faculty of the School to explain the University's position on the loyalty oath, and received a reportedly unenthusiastic and slim vote of confidence...
...Kennedy group did make such a recommendation, but a narrow vote of the Senate returned the bill to committee...