Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...congress screamed to an end, the proCommunists introduced a resolution blaming the Western powers for provoking war. Some of the Western delegates would not vote for it. Feather-Smoother Ehrenburg snarled: "Idiots! Imbeciles...
Vienna's Communist press last week told the Viennese how U.S. elections are won. The trick is to capture the unemployed cowboy vote by canning horses for the Marshall Plan...
...motor car, horses have not been worth so much. Farmers now make good money on this horse meat by sending it to Europe . . . Unemployed cowboys hunt the horses, shoot them, and make big money too. In this way the Government angles for the cowboys' and farmers' presidential vote...
...stockholders, ready to throw in the sponge, voted to liquidate. But the government had already taken steps that it hoped would change stockholders' minds before this week's final vote. It had issued three decrees: 1) cutting featherbedding; 2) promising mechanized cargo-handling equipment; 3) providing for government operation of the river steamers, with compensation for the private owners. Snorted the board of directors: "Frankly confiscatory...
...week: "When we came here, we had to wade through mud up to the knees. Munoz filled in the streets. Before he came into power, many people here lost their poor little homes because they could not pay their taxes. Now we pay no property tax. How shall I vote? For Munoz, all my life...