Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such magnitude, he says, that we should let bygones be bygones and accept every one we happen to find on the same side of our military fence. There are other reasons Mr. Gurney fails to mention. Spain is a Catholic country and there will be a large Catholic vote in the coming elections here. Another reason centers on the increasing pressure on behalf of Franco by our Latin American allies...
...show is a gentlemanly one, it will probably be a strongly Republican one as well. Saltonstall slaughtered Corcoran in 1944, and apparently neither the miraculous vote-pulling ability of the Senator nor the national Republican tempest have abated...
Saltonstall will campaign on his four-year Senate record, which followed that of most internationalist Republicans in the Senate. He voted against last December's bill to authorize Presidential price controls; and against slum clearance and public housing provisions of the housing bill. He voted for the Taft Hartley law and to override the President's vote of the tax reduction bill. He supported an amendment to the rent control bill which authorized a voluntary 15 per cent increase...
Revell said the Democratic and Republican parties both stand for the same principles. Admitting that the GOP had the election wrapped up, he insisted that "a vote for Thomas will not be wasted. It is certainly no more useless than a vote for Truman...
...from a Communist election rally to follow a Labor Party car (see cut). At the polls their elders did virtually the same, even though Labor has done little more than the Tories ever did for the Gorbals. Alice Cullen, Labor's candidate, won by a 6,525-vote margin over the Conservative candidate.The Communists, after an all-out campaign, got 17% of the vote. Said one Labor Party official in smug satisfaction: "We've still held our record of never losing a seat at a by-election since 1945." In 1906 the Gorbals became one of the first...