Word: votes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political climate in which we live, no church should tell its members whom to vote for, or interfere in political campaigns, or suggest reasons of a purely personal kind for preferring one candidate over another," said Cardinal Gushing, who made his Kennedy preference clear last month. "I cannot see, for example, how anyone would vote for a candidate for public office merely because of his religion, even if the candidate was noted for his personal piety...
...hodgepodge of Newars, Magars, Limbu, Murmi and Brahmans, sorely lacks paved roads and modern communications. Literacy is so low (6%) that parties were identified on the ballot boxes by pictures. The whole idea of an election, in fact, is so foreign to Nepalese that they have no word for "vote," were obliged to borrow the English...
Though Mayor Wagner has yet to block the Hudson and barricade the Thruway, the secession crisis between city and state is rapidly becoming critical. City Democrats are fed up with the paltry allotment of tax monies which Albany Republicans vote them, and are now considering the possibility of taking the city out of the state altogether. Westchester Country, lush back yard for Madison Avenue, would presumably join the new enclave...
...eventuality, but for the past twelve years the CRIMSON has picked Boston and will not be swayed now by the flimsy appeal of public opinion. At a time when all around us values are being shaken and loyalties broken and betrayed, the CRIMSON stands firm and casts a dissenting vote...
Their fondest hope is that they might prevent either party candidate from receiving the necessary 269 votes for election. In this case, the choice of a President is left to the House of Representatives where each state has only one vote. Thus any large bloc of states has formidable bargaining power...