Word: votes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baptist and the Methodist Christian Advocate would appear to be far more "determined and power-hungry" than any "Romanist hierarchy" they condemn. As for Senator Kennedy's being "hopelessly dominated by the Catholic hierarchy," one doubts if any Catholic journal has ever dictated to him how he should vote...
...village of Kilauea. on the northernmost Hawaiian island of Kauai. the workmen from the sugar plantation began to drift in to vote about midmorning. Tony Castro, 53, a naturalized Filipino-American, had been up since dawn, when he started the day by opening the mountain gates for the morning's irrigation. As he edged through the throng toward the paint-flaked schoolhouse, he was besieged by election workers who begged a vote for their candidates. Castro shook his head wordlessly. Behind him, wearing dirt-streaked khaki pants, sweat-stained shirt and heavy shoes, Louie Pacheco, 44, operator...
...fast by Moslems who hawked the papers on street corners as a spiritual duty. Such leading Negro Harlem politicos as Congressman Adam Clayton Powell (pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church) and Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack have curried Moslem favor, even though full-fledged Moslems are enjoined not to vote...
From such clues, students have proposed dozens of alternative routes. In Alps and Elephants, published in 1955, Britain's Sir Gavin de Beer casts his vote for the Col de la Traversette, but analyzes 30 different books that have proposed no fewer than twelve different Alpine passes for Hannibal's crossing. The most popular ones: Mont Genevre, Mont Cenis (Napoleon's theory), and the treacherous Col Clapier. Last week a pint-sized re-creation of Hannibal's horde wound its way through the French Alps toward Clapier pass, bent on proving that Hannibal could have used...
...campaign, Rabbi Teitelbaum has strong financial backers, and two of them were with him in Israel last week-Brooklyn Manufacturer (shortening) Israel Supnik and London Real Estate Operator Getzel Berger. With their help four years ago, Teitelbaum had offered $15 worth of foodstuffs to anyone refusing to vote in Israel's 1955 elections. In Jerusalem last week, he preached a repeat performance, persuaded many of his followers to turn over their identity cards to his aides-which means that they will not be able to vote in Israel's November general elections...