Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vote-Getter...
...broke in a vast, excited, ugly roar. Temporary Chairman Alben Barkley pounded his gavel. He ordered a voice vote on Vaughn's report. Although it had been agreed in committee not to have a roll call, Northern delegates shouted into their floor microphones, demanding one. But they could not be heard. The floor mikes were dead. Chairman Barkley asked for ayes and nays. Deadpan, he listened to the response and ruled that the majority report had carried. The Mississippi delegation was accredited...
...everyone knew, "civil rights" meant, largely, "Negro rights." The platform makers, headed by Pennsylvania's Senator Francis Myers, had hit, upon what they thought was the perfect compromise. They parroted the 1944 platform, affirmed the right of racial minorities "to live ... to work ... to vote." As for federal guarantee of those rights, they called upon Congress "to exert its full authority to the limit of its constitutional powers...
Texas' Congressman Sam Rayburn, who had taken over from Barkley as permanent chairman, called for a roll-call vote on Governor Moody's states' rights motion. It was smashed by an overwhelming 925 to 309. The two other Southern amendments were shouted down...
...gave hope to all candidates, including such dark horses as Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson and Brooke Claxton, Paul Martin, Clarence Decatur Howe, Douglas Abbott and Charles Gavan ("Chubby") Power. Because of mechanical differences, Canadian conventions are not so easy to swing or control as U.S. conventions: the delegates vote individually by secret ballot; no candidate may rise to withdraw and publicly switch his support to another...