Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thirteen states prohibit the union shop.* But the Taft-Hartley law does not bar it, if a majority of employees vote for it. Thus union leaders, in cases involving interstate commerce, have been able to use the federal labor law as a safe refuge from more stringent state laws...
Later, she darted off to address workers in Naples. "They wept and threw their arms around me because I wasn't selling the Marshall Plan or telling them how to vote," she reported on her return. "They acted as though I were the last American democrat . . . We've become the old country when we ought to be at the peak of our youth and beauty...
Like the double whammy, the double veto has elements of the supernatural. It begins when Russia vetoes a resolution on which, in the opinion of the majority, the veto does not apply. This forces the Council to take a vote on whether the veto applies or not. On this vote, however, the veto does count and therefore all debate is automatically ended...
Equal suffrage was introduced, and the voting age was reduced from 25 to 20. In April 1946, SCAP staged a free election. Three-fourths of the 36 million registrants voted. MacArthur's critics feared that the elections would be premature, that the people would not turn out to vote, or that extremists, right or left, would win too much power. But the vast majority of seats went to moderates...
...with the papers was Election Officer Lucien Guertin. He had come to Fort Albany from Cochrane, 220 miles to the south, to arrange for the voting in Ontario's June 7 provincial election. This was the first time since 1939 that Fort Albany's 36 eligible citizens had had a chance to vote. "Who are the candidates?" asked Father Jules Leguerrier, head of the Roman Catholic Mission...