Word: votes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brother Robert Kennedy† showed up.) While the conference accomplished little, it underscored the fact that Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey and Missouri's Stuart Symington are in the favor of Midwest politicians. Both are working hard to expand the Midwest political base and head off the unchallenged vote preference for Kennedy...
...serious danger inherent in the committee's work is that it may be too abstract in its consideration. The more mundane problems of assembling a college class--those recognized by Dean Bender but unrecognized by many who do not have to deal with them--cannot be solved by the vote of a faculty committee. Most important, the CEP sub-committee must remember that the objectives of undergraduate education and admissions are not those of graduate preparation for filling its own profession's ranks...
...satisfied the increasingly articulate nationalists, who fear that if the Federation is accorded dominion status when the question comes up in 1960, the colonialists will take advantage of their independence to suppress African rights. In line with the official policy, originally that of Cecil Rhodes, of giving the vote to every "civilized man," the white minority has held a decisive, though declining majority in the Federal Parliament...
...team is now on a self-supporting basis since a faculty vote last year halted its financial aid from the Athletic Department. Eliot's team, normally coached by Ted Lockwood, can usually practice only during meets. In addition to training exercises indoors, the skiers manage an occasional session of skiing in Cambridge...
...19th, and the remarkable Mr. P., a prominent Pennsylvania manufacturer (Pennypacker's Prime Products), is what was known at the time as a freethinker. He is president of the Darwin League. He makes fiery speeches in favor of woman suffrage ("Women seem to be people-let them vote"). He goes lolly-gagging about the landscape in an avant-garde motorcar known as a Firestone Columbus. And at every opportunity he comes crashing down, and damn the Spode, on the side of lip rouge and attached collars...