Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edouard Daladier set the date for the next election. On April 5 the members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate will, according to tradition, travel to Versailles, eleven miles from Paris, constitute themselves into a National Assembly and, in the Palace of Louis XIV, elect by majority vote the 15th President of the Republic...
...hard-fought was the battle which raged in the country's largest medical community last week as five thousand New York County members of the State Medical Society prepared to vote on the bald question: "Do you . . . favor compulsory health insurance [in New York State]?" Exactly how members were divided no one ventured to predict, but certain it was that the opposition was well organized. For the last few months Manhattan physicians have been bombarded with propaganda drawn up by smart Publicist Edward Bernays, financed by anti-New Dealer Frank Gannett, who was quick to capitalize on the American...
Eight Juniors were elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at a meeting held in the Lowell House Common Room. This was the first of three elections to the society for the Class of 1940, the next vote coming in November when 16 more men will be made members...
...elections were to be abolished by the decision rendered today, it would be mechanically impossible for the morrow's voting to be constitutionally discontinued. This is the extent to which the Student Council is confident of a confirmation for its stand. The referendum comes when the whole class is politically conscious and expectant over the outcome. It comes when many Yardling groups have a vested interest in the current election, and are consequently unwilling to forego a chance to vote. It comes with such lightning rapidity that every freshman will hesitate to take such a mighty step with such great...
...forms mean nothing provided the correct spirit is not behind them. Democracy in the Union and the Yard is a mockery. The cynical and frivolous attitude toward democratic forms which this situation produces does greater harm than a complete failure to exercise a democratic prerogative. The opportunity to vote will be offered students under far more auspicious circumstances in later years. In the Yard, however, elections are synonymous with hypocrisy, and freshmen conscious of this will abolish the two together...