Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before Dewey), a pre-Pearl Harbor internationalist who has seen postwar Europe and Asia with his own eyes, a man unafraid to speak his mind. They feel that he is a natural leader who understands the problems and has drawn the support of labor, business, and agriculture; a proved vote-getter who was elected as a Republican three times in a state which Roosevelt carried four times; a man who stands the best chance of luring the independent vote into the G.O.P. camp...
Actually, Harold Stassen got only a trifle less than Taft and Dewey combined. He walked off with 43% of the vote, to 36% for Dewey and 11% for Taft.* And he had done more than win a popularity contest. Thirteen of Nebraska's 15 convention delegates announced that they would vote for Stassen on the first ballot -though they are not legally bound by the primary results. The significance of the Nebraska election was that, in the space of two short weeks, Stassen had become the man to beat for the nomination -the man for all other candidates...
...vote, it also decided that the Taft-Hartley law was within the Constitution in requiring that, before a union can take a case to the National Labor Relations Board, its officers must swear that they are not Communists. The majority held that Congress has the right to prescribe qualifications for those who ask the "privilege" of acting for workers as their exclusive bargaining agents. For good and obvious reasons, said the court, Congress had decided that Communists do not qualify...
Spokesmen from the Democratic, Republican, and "Third" Parties "looked at the record," "pointed with pride" at their own superiority, and came to the same conclusion, "vote for us," at last night's Law School Forum, held in Rindge Tech, on the subject "Which Party...
Madison looms large on the delegates' horizon, but there are many other duties that will raise themselves formidably both before and after the annual convention. No sooner will the hubbub of the vote die down than the Student Council will be upon them with a series of six or seven daily orientation meetings beginning Tuesday. Since the NSA delegates are also scheduled to represent the College at the Regional meeting on May 15, before that time they must absorb knowledge of all that the Council has done in the past year and plans to do in the coming year...