Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tickets in a nationwide pool on how many seats each party would get in the new Assembly. Manhattan's Daily News summed up the situation in a homey headline: "Italy Picks Uncles Today; Will It Be Sam or Joe?" All Sunday and half of Monday, Italians voted. The Reds had hoped that bad weather would keep many people from the polls (a small turnout would favor the Communists). The skies were grey; occasional showers and hailstorms pelted voters. The Christian Democrats, striving to get all the voters to the polls, provided ambulances for the sick and infirm. When they...
When Alcide de Gasperi cast his vote after a one-day rest in Capri, his wife said: "I hope my husband will not be the Premier again. He is so tired." Said he: "We will not fail democracy." Then he went off to Castel Gandolfo to bowl with some of his friends among the local peasants. He was losing badly when a sudden rainstorm broke up the game...
...decide the question, the Labor government permitted a rare "free vote." Laborites could vote as they chose without regard to the official party stand. Only 75 Labor M.P.s heeded House Leader Herbert Morrison's plea to keep the death penalty. As the teller reported that 245 had voted to abolish the penalty, 222 to keep it, M.P.s cheered, shouted, wept and threw papers into...
House and Union diners will choose among the 20 nominees at noon and evening meal hours, while Dudley Hall will vote at lunch only...
Head supervisor of this precedent-shattering re-vote is Samuel M. Robbins '45, who assumed command after the Council tossed out the results of the first election on Tuesday...