Word: voting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Vote. Vandenberg countered by inquiring sarcastically: "Is it the Senator's theory that the majority of the . . . nations on his proposed council could declare a state of war . . . without our consent?" It was. "The Senator," taunted Arthur Vandenberg, "is a little more internationalist than I am." "I suspect I am," said Joe Ball. "I think I probably always have been." Vandenberg fired his last broadside: "It is interesting to be in favor of everything that is not available for us to vote on, and not in favor of anything that...
...warm, humid darkness fell on Wrightsville (pop. 1,760), Ga., one night last week, a long line of automobiles drew up at the ballpark. It was the eve of rural Johnson County's Democratic primary, and 400 Negroes had registered to vote. Two hundred and forty-nine men & women climbed solemnly out of the cars, holding black oilcloth bags. Heads down* to evade the gaze of curious bystanders, they took out the white sheets and sugar-sack masks of the Ku Klux Klan and hurriedly pulled them on. Then, in slow single file, they marched to the paved square...
...crowd of 75 soda-drinking and candy-munching spectators heard Hyman Pill vote for hifself 15 times, thereby preventing any majority vote...
...Democratic machine brought out the voters," he said, "but they voted American Labor Party." To illustrate his point he cited the fact that the 44 percent turnout, high for a special election, included more than half of the eligible Democratic vote and less than half of the ALP roster...
...unanimous vote of the 18-girl Student Council, Radcliffe's Student Government chartered an Annex branch of the American Youth for Democracy and threw open 'Cliffe doors to any qualified political club which petitions for recognition...