Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Premier Alcide de Gasperi, campaigning (by airplane) up & down Italy, left no doubt that Rome's show of force was no empty gesture. With unexpected vigor, he exhorted Italians not to let themselves be scared away from the polls by Communist rough stuff. His theme: either all will vote freely, or none will vote at all. Shivering in a chill spring wind that swept across the ruins of Monte Cassino, he cried: "Form a bulwark! . . . Defend Italy. . . . Vote for Italy. . . ." In Sardinia, before stocking-capped old peasants and natty coal miners fresh from their showers, he said with imposing...
Then they proceeded to tell me that they had heard Wallace had polled 11% to 11.5% of the popular vote in a "secret poll" I had taken for Henry Luce of TIME magazine...
Then the policy committee quickly approved the U.S. resolution by a similar vote. The tally showed what might come out of the Geneva conference. There would not be world-wide agreement on U.S. ideas of freedom of the press. But there seemed an excellent chance of agreement by the majority of nations outside the Iron Curtain...
More than uncritical jubilation should greet the news that men in upperclass courses will be freed from mid-term grades and monitors next fall. The faculty vote of last week eliminating compulsory November and April marks and required attendance for all courses "primarily for Juniors and Seniors" does allow for simple relief or joy as a reaction, but it should also be applauded on two other, more important levels...
...Faculty's decision on the question of midterm grade requirements came only after extended study of the problem by a Student Council committee. That the Provost and the Faculty withheld its final vote until all of the Council committee's evidence had been gathered and presented is an encouraging sign of faculty confidence in and co-operation with the Council. In the same way, the fact that the Facnity acted on the attendance question soon after the first expressions of student opinion on the subject is a progressive token...