Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congress got ready last week to vote for a 70-group Air Force...
...South was still grumbling. Memphis' Boss Ed Crump snarled: "I'm for anybody except Harry Truman. Any good Democrat will get my vote." But he added that there was no truth in reports that Southern states would hold a rump convention. Even without the South, Harry Truman seemed to be in. National Chairman J. Howard McGrath announced that his rock-bottom figures showed the President with a minimum of 900 of a possible 1,234 votes on the first ballot...
...Stassen (whose backers had bucked hard for him) and Tom Dewey (who had waged no campaign at all). Not only had Taylor been renominated; throughout the state Duff's candidates for convention delegates had won. Jim Duff concluded, tentatively, that some 60 of the delegates, perhaps more, would vote with...
...heart & soul for Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg, hesitated to speak only because he had no assurance that Vandenberg was a serious candidate. Vandenberg had run sixth in the state's primary. Said Jim Duff: "I feel certain that if [people] had known he was available his vote would have been much larger...
...result of a straw vote taken at Monday night's meeting, Charles W. Detjen '50 and Lawrence F. O'Donnell '49 will seek out University Library Director Keyes DeW. Metcalf and tell him that the Council "looks favorably on Radcliffe use of the Lamont Library...