Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early last week Stevenson moved ahead again, and when the unofficial tallies were finished in midweek he held a 362-vote advantage. But in the days that followed, corrected totals were substituted for hurried, early vote counts. Stevenson's lead dwindled. At week's end Johnson was 162 votes ahead, and nobody from the Panhandle to the Rio Grande could guess who was finally going...
...brisk little Bavarian delegate proposed that delegates from Berlin be invited as "guests and advisers." Before a vote could be taken, Reimann was on his feet again. "Zur Geschäftsordnung" (Point of order), he yelled, but was ignored. His face turned red, his grey hair flopped about wildly. "Traitors! . . . Stooges! ... Well, in a few months there will be no assembly, there will be none of you . . . der Tag is coming...
...formal, orderly vote was taken on Reimann's motion to abandon the assembly; all voted against him, except his one fellow Communist. Christian Democratic Leader Konrad Adenauer, Cologne's ex-mayor and one of Germany's most respected public figures, took over as chairman. Said he: "A start must be made so that Germany can earn a place among the free nations of the world...
Water That Christ Sent. Arsolians put two & two together. Said they: "Rome's mayor is a Demo-Christian-naturally he won't listen to a Communist. What we must do is vote Demo-Christian. Will Christians deny us water that Christ sent to us in the first place...
...sternly urged its Washington, B.C. local to go to bat for Reporter Tom Buchanan, who had been fired by the Washington Star because he was a Communist (TIME, June 28). Last week the local, in effect, told the A.N.G. to mind its own business. By a 2-to-1 vote, the Washington Guildsmen decided for the second time not to contest Buchanan's firing...