Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gifts of money totalling $400 will swell University and Radcliffe funds this week by a vote of the trustees of the A. C. Ratchesky Foundation. Radcliffe's 70th anniversary alumnae fund will be allotted $200; the University's Cancer and Infantile Paralysis Commissions were granted $100 apiece...
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...first figures on the big Scoreboard were jarring. Pundits explained soothingly that it was only the big-city vote, which was expected to be Democratic anyway. But the first faint chill swept over the gathering. The totals on the board mounted, the minutes dragged into hours, but the Dewey landslide still had not begun. At 11:30 Brownell appeared again, proudly announced that Dewey had carried Philadelphia (he was wrong-Truman did, by 7,500), and flatly claimed the election...
...before election, the Gallup poll gave Dewey 49.5% of the total vote, Truman 44.5%. On the day after election, red-faced Dr. George H. Gallup had two alibis: "Truman recaptured many votes from Wallace. Also, a lot of the 'undecided voters' in the poll voted for Truman." Poll-taking, he added, was still "an infant science...
Dewey's home town, Buick-Dealer Harlow B. Ross summed up the election results in one disgusted sentence: "There are just more damned fools in this country than there are intelligent people." ¶Leesburg, Fla. reported a heavy Negro vote. It was apparently stimulated by a motorized parade of 250 members of the Ku Klux Klan on election...