Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London the newsweekly Cavalcade, which has fattened its circulation by specializing in Windsor news ever since the early days of the abdication crisis (TIME, Dec. 14, 1936, et ante), announced results of a "nationwide" straw vote in which Cavalcade got subjects of King George VI to ballot on: 1) "Which foreign nation do you like best?" and 2) "Should the Duke and Duchess of Windsor be invited to return to England to live?" Result: 37% preferred the U. S., 28% France and 15% Germany; 61% were for inviting the Windsors back to England. This survey was made last July (Edward...
Each of the 100,000,000 Russians expected to go to the polls will vote for at least five persons, his representatives at the various levels of the new Constitution's hierarchy of Soviets. He will vote for his representative: 1) in the village, city or metropolitan borough Soviet; 2) in the Soviet of the region; 3) in the Soviet of the Province; 4) in the Soviet of the "area," such as Khakassk, or the "republic," such as Georgia, in which he lives; 5) in the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union...
...rate the starting team will be announced on Friday, and until then the race is wide open. (Confidentially it all depends on the precinct leaders who get out the vote...
...Mussolini's consent to adopt the British scheme of July 14 and immediately make "token withdrawals" of Italians from Spain as evidence of the Tightness of these conclusions, the Prime Minister voiced his own pious hope that the last volunteer will soon be withdrawn. He then asked a vote of confidence on the foreign policy of His Majesty's Government...
...Basle and succeed the recently drowned Director of the Bank for International Settlements, M. Pierre Quesnay. Attacks of the Belgian Fascists or Rexists upon M. van Zeeland for continuing to receive emoluments from the National Bank of Belgium after he became Premier resulted in a parliamentary vote clearing van Zeeland (TIME, Sept. 20 et ante). But the blatant Rexist press has never ceased repeating its charges, and last week van Zeeland and his Cabinet colleagues decided that His Majesty must be given opportunity to reorganize the Cabinet...