Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Third floor girls threw paper bags filled with water at the young men who urged them to "Vote for Tom Dewey," and played music from their car radio into the megaphone. The girls described the serenade as "Quite lively, but too loud...
...into the College. A poll showed that Blaine was the favorite, but only by 483 to 463. The Cleveland and Hendricks backers did not look forward to marching in a traditional Republican parade, so they asked the entire College to rally for Cleveland. The matter was submitted to a vote, and tradition won out; the College voted 569 to 363 to march Republican. This parade was probably the most glorious in College history. Cambridge Police marched in front, followed by a Fife and Drum Corps, followed by the entire cheering, chanting student body, Democrats and Republicans. Torches in hand...
...high cost of living, criticizing Governor Bradford for allowing price hikes on 400 necessities of life. On billboards and in Dever's own oratory, prices have been the central issue. But the Governor is against the veteran," one lady said recently. She went on to blast Bradford's vote of a bill giving civil service pay to gold star mothers and war widows, and his veto of a bill allowing paraplegics $500 yearly...
...Radcliffe League for Democracy poll, whose results were announced last night, also showed a Dewey landslide. The RLD straw vote showed 48.7 percent for Dewey, 18 percent for Truman, 12.9 percent for Wallace, and 12.9 percent for Thomas...
There may have been a considerable inaccuracy in the Presidential poll conducted today by the CRIMSON, due to one simple feature of the ballot: the blank marked "Name". A student voting for Dewey in a straw poll will willingly sign his name to his ballot; one who would otherwise vote for Wallace may refuse to when the ballot is not secret. And he may have excellent reason...