Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assistant president. He ordered Robert Travis transferred from the powerful Flint (Mich.) local, prepared to split that local's 30,000 members into five groups. He fired Frank Winn, U.A.W.'s able press agent. He fired an organizer who called a strike vote in a General Motors plant. By this time it was apparent that President Martin's long-awaited purge was in full flower. Also fired at one crack were more than a dozen other organizers including such potent veterans of last spring's strikes as Robert Kanter and Victor Reuther, brother of Walter Reuther...
...other candidates (including Charles H. ("Time Clock") Hubbell, who had One-Eyed Connolly for a campaign manager and got 724 votes), were also rans when the primary vote was counted. But Burton-McWilliams division of votes caused Clevelanders to open their eyes. Mayor Burton turned up with an unprecedented 10-7 margin over his Democratic opponent, although some 50% of the voters, including most of the independents, stayed at home. Astute observers foresaw Mayor Burton re-elected next month by a 50,000 majority...
...blame always paying the indemnity. For example the assassination in Egypt of Sir Lee Oliver Fitzmaurice Stack cost Egyptians exactly $2,300,000 (TIME. Dec. 1, 1924). In the painful dilemma of 1937, Britain's Cabinet last week announced that the House of Commons will be asked to vote ?5,000 ($25,000) to "Snatch." Fully convalescent. Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen left Shanghai for a holiday to be spent in such South Sea pleasure spots as Bali...
...Newark, N. J. a file of shackled prisoners on their way from courthouse to jail passed the Second Ward, Fourth District polling place. "Hey, wait!" shouted the head man in the file, "this is where I vote." He was hustled off to prison...
...Curtiss, '40 against the Harvard Committee of the National Committee of Medical Bureau to aid Spanish Democracy, will be presented to the Student Council at its first meeting, which will probably be on Thursday, October 7th. If at that time the majority of the Council, a quorum being present, vote that the charges are worthy of investigation, a committee shall be appointed to report as soon as possible...