Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually, all the ad says is that ex-servicemen have some peculiar reason why not to vote for MacArthur, else why the use of that good old word "veteran"? The ad doesn't say, for instance, "Sponsors: veteran Jonathan E. Robbin, veteran Gibb C. Taylor etc.," it merely lists the names of a number of public spirited Harvardians and others who think "vets" should not vote for MacArthur...
...these men who say veterans would not vote for MacArthur and who for their reasons quote that unimpeachable source, "scuttlebutt?" What do they have in common? Are they former members of the general staff which was really capable of forming a comprehensive view of MacArthur? Or are they HYD's, members of the Lampoon, or the John Reed Society? Are they members of some political action group, or do they just hold a personal grudge against the general...
When the U.S. Senate voted to send the St. Lawrence Seaway proposal back to the Foreign Relations Committee on February 27, smothering it for this session, a long and respectable tradition was once more upheld. The St. Lawrence question has arrived on Congressional floors in various guises in the past--as a treaty with Canada, as a joint resolution of both Houses, and as an amendment to another bill--and invariably it has fallen before an unfavorable vote...
...less than 22 Democrats stormed across party lines to hand FDR his first major defeat. As an amendment to the Rivers and Harbors Bill in 1944, the Seaway was an easier victim, and last month's de facto rejection showed the opposition in comfortable command with a 27 vote majority...
...riot matter much anyhow: all available wall space was covered with pictures of the President-("Help Perón -Vote for His Men") and La Señora ("The Standard-Bearer of the Workers"). All the while, the radio blared: "A vote for Perón is a vote for Social Justice...