Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...though the Socialists did not hope for many more than the 80,000 votes they had drawn in 1944, they were neither discouraged nor dismayed. They debated as though millions were listening. Cried a redheaded delegate from Michigan: "I don't want a cheap, lousy, vote-seeking bourgeois platform!" They sang the Internationale, spoke fiercely against the Communists, the Republicans and the Democrats, publicly pitied Henry Wallace.They argued wildly as to whether they should stand for pacifism, decided against...
...beheaded statues on the roof, and the icy stench of a tomb breathing over its bricked-up entrances. A few blocks away along the Wilhelmstrasse, the granite walls of the battered Reichs-chancellery are plastered with neat, wheedling Communist posters: "Mothers, for the happy future of your children, vote S.E.D." Chalked on the famous balcony is this bitter beatitude: "Blessed are the dead, for their hands do not freeze...
...date, the Soviet Nervenkrieg has not moved one out of 25 American "dependents" to pack. Many have stopped boating on the Wannsee and buying antiques, have gone to work in German hospitals instead. "Do not be afraid!" the American licensed press told Berliners two years ago, urging them to vote against Communism. "The rumor has spread that the Americans and British will leave . . . How unfounded!" Berliners believed it and voted down Communism. Relying on the U.S., they are gambling with their lives, 100 miles inside the Iron Curtain. A U.S. retreat from Berlin's ruins would mean that...
Nonetheless, South Koreans went to the polls this week. U.S. occupation authorities encouraged a big turnout by dropping don't-forget-to-vote leaflets from planes. Most were expected to cast their votes for the National Association for the Rapid Realization of Korean Independence of Dr. Syngman Rhee. His party stood for a unified Korea-but not for unification a la Pyongyang...
...Britain, where socialized medicine is about to become a fact (but not without some last-ditch fighting), the British Medical Association reluctantly came to a decision. After a vote of its members, it decided not to oppose (and force its members to boycott) the government's National Health Service. When the Health Act goes into effect on July 5, every Briton will be entitled to free medical service at government expense. British doctors who join the Service will get a yearly retainer of ?300 ($1,200) plus additional fees for services rendered...