Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...BURNSIDE, 49, is a professor of political science at Marshall College in Huntington, W.Va., who failed to win in 1946. This time, with coal miners out in full cry to show John L. Lewis that he could not tell them how to vote, Burnside and three other Democrats toppled Republican incumbents...
...hards held Kansas for nearly 70 years. In 1933, they rejected the federal repeal amendment (21st) with the offended aloofness of a preacher declining a Sazerac. Many a hypocrite, it was said, staggered to the polls to vote...
Thus by last week's Election Day, when Kansans voted again on a repeal amendment, the issue had become more economic than moral. Repeal won. The amendment, banning the saloon but enabling the legislature to provide for package sale of liquor, passed by 60,000 votes. There was still a chance that the legislature would reverse this triumph in the spring. But by vote of the people, Kansas had voted wet, leaving Oklahoma and Mississippi the nation's only remaining dry states...
...they feel about Communist sabotage of their country's economy? What did they think of the mumbling impotence of coalition governments? Their answer was an overwhelming vote for Charles de Gaulle. Almost complete returns showed that of the 269 Council seats (another 51 will be filled by overseas candidates not yet elected), 99 went to Gaullists, 50 to Radical Socialists, and 48 to Socialists. The Communists, who controlled 85 votes in the outgoing Council, got only 16. Most of the M.R.P. electors voted for De Gaulle's R.P.F...
...Hooper, who was evidently following the returns and feeling sensitive about poll-taking, explained testily: "What we do is not analogous to a political poll. It is analogous to the vote...