Word: votes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story of the Strauss vote in the issue for June 29 may do an injustice to Senator Margaret Chase Smith, for which I may be responsible. The TIME reporter asked me why I thought she might vote against Admiral Strauss, and I told him it was by the questions she asked me as to the committee hearings...
...office and discussed the nomination with her. I judged from the questions she asked that there were a number of points which she would carefully examine, and knowing what I felt the answers to those points would be, I concluded that her conscience might lead her to cast a vote against Admiral Strauss...
Eastern Europe. Perhaps more resigned to its fate (a limited victory for Khrushchev), but not even in the remotest satellite village would anyone hazard a really free vote...
...German army," cried a Tel Aviv newspaper. Israel had contracted to sell 250,000 anti-tank grenade launchers worth $3,300,000 to West Germany's Bundeswehr. Even coalition parties in the government demanded cancellation of the contract, and Premier David Ben-Gurion faced a no-confidence vote in parliament. Threatening to resign if he did not get his way, Ben-Gurion defended the deal in this fashion: "I distinguish between the Germany of yesterday and the Germany of today...
...history: domination by Communist sympathizers. Attracted by the Guild's obvious potential, Red-liners moved in soon after its formation, eventually controlled the national offices. After a bitter fight in 1941, anti-Communists forced through a national referendum that swept out the leftist administration by a 2-1 vote...