Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radcliffe will re-vote on three major issues $12 student activities fee, compulsory subscription to the Radcliffe News, and status of N.S.A. delegate--for the next nine days...
...since Chief Yellow Hand went on the warpath had Nebraska seen such an invasion. All week long three candidates in Nebraska's free-for-all presidential primary swept across the rich, rolling cattle-&-wheat country, whooping up the vote. Local air waves throbbed with campaign oratory. Autograph hunters had a field day. One enterprising Lincoln girl named Louise Carter managed to get herself photographed shaking hands with Bob Taft, Tom Dewey and Harold Stassen inside three days...
Time for a Rally. Despite growing indications that they could not win with Candidate Truman,* some Democratic bigwigs decided that it was time to show some rallying strength behind him. In Maine, the state Democratic convention agreed, after some rumblings of dissent, to instruct its delegates to vote for the President. In Des Moines, the Democratic Midwest Conference (party chiefs from eight states) came out in support...
...Rome's aged brown walls are heavy with garish tapestries-purple, green, red, black election posters, shrieking at the people. (If you want jobs and bread, some land to till, some peace to enjoy, vote Communist; if you believe in God, fear Communisn, hate tyranny, vote Christian Democrat.) I drove to the imposing stone building which houses the U.S. Embassy, talked about the bread and pasta from America which alone have saved Italians from starvation; of the American coal which alone has kept Italy's railways running and its blast furnaces roaring. Would not all these things...
...East. Red countermeasures had already begun. The day before Robertson spoke, the Russian-controlled Berlin radio announced, not unexpectedly, a plebiscite for the Soviet zone next month on the question of "unity." The foregone conclusion: most would vote "Ja." Then the Russians could set up their capital in Berlin (in their own sector), or possibly in Leipzig...