Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Advocate has decided to enter the plebiscite field, it was learned last night, as its officers planned an extensive vote on the "Harvard City" proposal. Meanwhile another local organization, the Harvard branch of the Young Communists, felt that "the misplaced humor of the Harvard Lampoon, by aggravating ill-feelings, only plays into the hands of the Cambridge politicians...
...establishing the right to vote on the basis of time of residence was reviewed twice in Massachusetts superior courts. In 1843 it was set down that a student who had a permanent residence elsewhere could not vote in Cambridge unless "he depend on his own property income, or industry for his support...
...opinion" read the decision, that his going to a public institution and residing there solely for the purpose of education would not of itself, give him a right to vote there, because it would not necessarily change his domicil...
...living" in various U. S. cities. Lately, while investigating "the pecuniary rewards of great abilities," Professor Thorndike took a look at the pay of top-notch scientists employed in industry. In American Men of Science he found 72 industrial savants whose names were starred for distinguished research (by vote of their colleagues). He then hunted up as many of their salaries as he could find in the Treasury report to the Ways & Means Committee...
Captain Edward Vernon ("Eddie") Rickenbacker, U. S. World War "Ace of Aces," named "the greatest living human being." His choice (for averting another World War): Neville Chamberlain. Meanwhile, Princeton University's 674 freshmen, by a one-vote margin over Adolf Hitler, chose the same man for the same title...