Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your obvious sympathy for Mr. Wallace and his mistakes has made me feel so sorry for the poor man that I have decided to vote...
...natural vote-getter; he has an Irish gift for phrase. But he refuses to indulge in dramatics. His automobiles-a black Cadillac and a black Plymouth sedan-bear no special licenses, no big red lights. "I don't like topside in government getting special favors," he says, "the peasants jumping out of the way and all that. I think people sort of like that stuff-but it's bad for them. Government should permeate. It shouldn't crush...
Dispossessed: Rumania's ex-King Michael (and family*), for "carrying on increasing maneuvers abroad against the interests of the Rumanian people." They lost 159 castles, 400,000 acres of land, 3,991,502 shares of stock, some yachts, and the right to vote the straight ticket (Communist...
...Chase Continues. Tough Woodruff Randolph, president of the A.F.L. International Typographical Union, got a thumping vote of confidence in his strike-ridden battle with publishers (TIME, Sept. 1). In the heaviest vote (about 70,000) ever cast in an I.T.U. election, Randolph's "progressive" ticket won a 3-to-2 victory over the "independent" party headed by John R. Evans of Washington. Said Secretary-Treasurer Don Hurd: the vote was "not merely re-election of the incumbents, but is a general membership affirmation of the policies they pursued." That was notice to publishers not to throw away their Vari...
...Ohio State University's 2,640 faculty members and 4,000 other employees faced a choice between signing an anti-Communist oath or getting fired. By a 6-1 vote, the trustees had approved a resolution by Board Member (and Brigadier General) Carlton S. Dargusch, 47, wartime deputy director of Selective Service. General Dargusch had heard "widespread" rumors of Communism on the campus and thought that now was the time for teachers to "come forward and be counted." The Cleveland Press denounced the project as "hysterical libeling of a whole faculty . . . [The oath] won't reach the liars...