Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appearing three times a week on a radio program on which he invited voters to send him all their personal complaints. He hammered away at inflation, proposed a "voluntary" price-control plan. Governor Shannon still figured to win. Chester Bowles's ambition was to pile up a vote impressive enough to give him a share in taking over the receivership of the Democratic Party...
...impromptu, Lincoln-quoting speeches of Democrat Lausche, who had whipped the whole state machine to win the nomination, now was playing a lone hand with little mention of the rest of his ticket. His chances on Election day depended on the strength of an increasingly common curbstone comment: "I vote Republican but I'm going to cut over for Lausche...
Twice before, John L. had tried to steer his miners' votes. Not many had followed his wrathful advice to vote against Franklin Roosevelt in 1940 and 1944. After his tirade against Harry Truman, newsmen polled many of the delegates, found that about half would vote for Truman.* Next day a rumble of opposition broke out on the convention floor over a resolution which indirectly endorsed Tom Dewey (it said that Governor Dewey had never said anything bad about the U.M.W.). The resolution passed, but the mild resentment caused the geyser to erupt again. Lewis steamily trumpeted: "If there...
Double Dues. With that off his chest, the Champ turned to union politics. Some delegates had the temerity to demand the right to choose their district officials by a vote of the membership. John L. swiftly squelched that move (21 of his union's 31 districts are ruled by Lewis appointees). It was just a waste of time, said the Great Man, to talk about such things; he could be relied upon to choose competent officials and, if any of them "failed to do the right thing," he would send them back to digging coal...
...schools; Saltonstall opposed this provision. In their foreign policy the two men are fairly close. Both support full appropriations for the Marshall Plan, and both favor putting teeth in the United Nations. Fitzgerald makes two specific proposals for the U.N. One would require only a four-out-of-five vote of the Security Council's permanent members in order to settle key questions. Second, Fitzgerald wants the U.N. to get itself a strong military force to back up decisions. As Fitzgerald's campaign manager, John I. Fitzgerald Jr., puts it, "My father believes you can keep world peace the same...