Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never had so much attention from a candidate for state office, let alone from a presidential aspirant. But Harold Stassen desperately needed Oregon's twelve convention delegates to get his bandwagon, slowed down in Ohio, rolling again. And Tom Dewey wanted to prove his ability as a vote-getter...
...Back." Reuther seemed disturbed by the course of national politics. He was afraid "a lot of decent guys" would vote for Henry Wallace if the Democrats renominated President Harry Truman. He said he thought it tragic that Truman had inherited the presidency "at a time when the world needs great leadership." He believed Supreme Court Justice William Douglas could be elected, that labor could back him with a vast campaign if he were nominated by the Democrats...
...supervision last week, U.S.-occupied South Korea had its first free general election in its 4,000-year history. Communist threats of disruptive violence did not materialize on the scale expected; only 35 people were killed in election disorders. Nor did the Communist boycott significantly diminish the total vote; 92% of South Korea's eight million registered voters cast ballots. But in one forecast, pre-election dopesters were proved right. Tenacious, septuagenarian Syngman Rhee was confirmed as Korea's No. 1 political leader and its probable new chief of state...
...control the New York Central, got a rude awakening last week. In a ruling as abrupt as the jangling of a fire bell, the Interstate Commerce Commission flatly refused to let Young and Chesapeake & Ohio President Robert J. Bowman 1) sit on Central's board, or 2) vote C. & O.'s 400,000 shares in Central which would give Young working control...
Forty-six members of the University's Faculty have signed a statement urging defeat of the Mundt-Nixon anti-Communist Bill, which passed the House of Representatives by a 319 to 58 vote Wednesday. The bill now goes to the Senate, where it is expected to face heavy sledding...