Word: votes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students who voted, 459 approved the present system. Several girls, however, declined to vote for either alternative, instead criticizing the poll for "confusing the separate issues of closing time and reserve book circulation...
...recent vote for officers, Benjamin B. Page '61 was re-elected president and David L. Stone '61 was chosen vice-president...
Adlai E. Stevenson remains the Harvard Democrat's favorite choice for the presidential candidacy in 1960, according to a straw vote of the HYDC membership last week...
Watch the Boss. Much of the bickering was over a campaign by both sides to win the Steelworkers' secret vote on industry's last offer, required by the Taft-Hartley Act some time between Jan. 6 and Jan. 21. Out from the eleven negotiating steel companies went letters and brochures to each employee setting forth the industry's "final" offer (it can still make another), which was actually made fortnight ago (TIME, Nov. 30). Dave McDonald called it "a propaganda offer aimed at confusing the Steelworkers," and the union's official paper, Steel Labor, warned workers...
...vote will probably be no-as it has always been in such cases-but industry was gambling that there would be enough yeses to embarrass McDonald. In any case, union leaders are not bound by the vote; they can call another strike even if workers want to accept the offer. If no settlement is reached, the Taft-Hartley injunction will be dissolved shortly after the vote. The Government will have no way of preventing a new strike, since the President has exhausted the measures he can take under the present law. Federal Mediator Joseph Finnegan called union and management together...