Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them that Warren had released them. But before the balloting began, Knowland saw John Bricker lumbering up to the rostrum. With none of his usual forensics, John Bricker announced simply that he had a statement from Taft. "I release my delegates," he read from notes, "and ask them to vote for Dewey." Knowland was right behind Bricker, pushing aside Stassen, who wanted to be next. Knowland surrendered for Warren. Stassen got his chance, stepped forward and surrendered for himself. He got a great cheer. The weary and unhappy Sigler finally got to the rostrum and surrendered for Vandenberg...
...report was being spread that Michigan was about to break up and desert Vandenberg. The story, under an eight-column headline in the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, confronted delegates hurrying out to Convention Hall. Walter Hallanan, national committeeman from West Virginia and a staunch Taft man, announced that he would vote for Dewey instead...
Second Ballot. The second ballot began. This was when favorite sons would drop out and the real business of voting would begin. Taft got 50 of the 56 Illinois votes which had gone to Favorite Son Green. Dewey got 24 of the 35 New Jersey votes which had gone to Driscoll. Most of Dewey's gain was in dribs & drabs-a vote here, a vote there, demonstrating the value of the Dewey camp's attention to details...
...Rankin came out of the President's office and suggested that the secessionist Dixiecrats might stay hitched if the Democratic platform went no further on civil rights than the generalizations of the 1944 plank -which proclaimed that "racial and religious minorities have the right to live, develop and vote equally with all citizens...
Unended Danger. The problem for Ben-Gurion was not just to suppress terrorism, but to convince Israelis that the terrorists' promises of victory through violence were deceptive. Last week he demanded and got a vote of confidence (24-7) from the Council of State. Said he: "The incident may be closed, but the danger hasn't ended ... It would be a mistake to depend upon the army alone [to suppress terror]. The entire people of Israel are called upon to overcome the danger." Terrorists had flourished during the British mandate. Now, said Ben-Gurion, Israel must unite...