Word: votes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dwight Eisenhower's 146th veto message whirred through the White House Mimeograph machine one morning last week before Congress had even sent him the bill to be rejected: the $1.2 billion rivers and harbors appropriation, almost exactly the same old vote-catching "pork barrel" smashed by the 144th veto two weeks earlier. This time, Ike knew, Democrats were dead certain that they could muster the necessary two-thirds to override-and end-the remarkable string of unbeaten Eisenhower vetoes...
Members' Rights. Labor-boss coercion is outlawed, members get the unqualified right to vote in union elections (by secret ballot), may speak up against policies, get fair and public hearing in disciplinary procedures, sue in U.S. courts if justice is not provided under union procedure...
...right to vote, still denied to many Negroes ("a betrayal of the ideal set forth in the Declaration of Independence"), the commission recommended strong new federal action. Items: ¶ A federal law requiring states to preserve registration records for five years, during which they would be subject to public inspection; states have a right to determine voting qualifications, the report said, but the right "is not unlimited."¶ An amendment to the Civil Rights Act forbidding any election official to discriminate by failure to carry out a public duty, e.g., resigning from office to avoid accepting registrations, and a recommendation...
Three commissioners, going further, suggested a constitutional amendment guaranteeing specifically the right of vote for Negroes and other minorities...
...Comiskey Park. With just three weeks left to play, the go-go White Sox were still in first place, and Commissioner Ford Frick had flashed the sign to start preparing World Series tickets. Even the San Francisco Giants, leaders of the National League, were giving the White Sox a vote of confidence by sending a scout to look them over...