Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fists & Votes. Next day fighting broke out again-this time in the National Assembly. But with fists only. While Communist deputies chanted "Assassin," Moch made his report. He charged that the battle at Bergougnan had been caused by 300 Communists among the strikers, and added that the bottle bombs had been thrown by "non-workers." "Liar!" shouted Marcel Cachin, dean of France's Communists. Replied Moch: "It is easy to say others lie when one does not have an easy conscience oneself." But some of Moch's Socialist colleagues were less mild. They surged across the aisles, fell...
...muggy heat of emotions and premature summer weather one man remained crisp and cool. Having weathered other bitter crises, France's Premier Robert Schuman was quietly awaiting his next test: the summing up at the end of the debate this week, and the Assembly's vote. Bidault was feeling the temperature more than his chief was. When he had finished his halting defense of the London agreement, the Foreign Minister walked slowly from the rostrum and took his seat on the government bench. He was sweating, but he muttered to Robert Schuman: "J'ai froid...
...After the U.N. partition vote last November, Arabs attacked Jews in the British Protectorate of Aden at the mouth of the Red Sea. Deaths: 75 Jews, 34 Arabs...
...Poet Walter De La Mare, myth-&-mystic immortal, who became a Companion of Honor. Novelist Elizabeth Bowen became a Commander of the British Empire. William Gilliatt, president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (who had just been named attendant specialist to Princess Elizabeth), got a friendly vote of confidence when he was made a Knight Bachelor...
...what the dissenting minority called "the most important antitrust case which has been before the court in years," the U.S. Supreme Court last week assayed the question. By a 5-to-4 vote it turned down the Justice Department Antitrust Division's attempt to prevent the sale of Los Angeles' Consolidated Steel Corp. to Columbia Steel Co., a subsidiary of U.S. Steel...