Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prior to Plan E, Cambridge voted for its Councilmen through 11 wards. Each Councilman looked after the interests of his own district at City Hall and saw to it that the school janitor who had been so helpful in getting out the vote got a promotion and perhaps a bonus at Christmas...
...Cambridge municipal author its has rarely showed on high levels. "We have a lot of respect for the University on the Council," Deguglielmo said, "and we have always done our best to fulfill the requests of the University." Public statements made against Harvard usually stem from the value as vote gutters...
...government's full power. Even before the convention began, an old Laureano henchman took over the key Interior ministry from a non-political army officer. Two Laureano men assumed governorships, more were ticketed for other crucial states. The Liberals in Congress countered with a law allowing citizens to vote anywhere. This would enable Liberals to vote in other towns if run out of their homes in Conservative-bossed villages...
There is no evidence that the party, headed by the independent Salzburg publisher Kraus, has been taken over by Nazi elements. This charge was, of course, leveled at the League by the opposition during the election campaign. It attracted a large number of the votes of the so-called "less implicated" Nazis, who were granted the ballot in this election, although they did not vote in 1945. Your statement that "a large group of Austrians decided that they would like to have some Nazis running their country" is ironic when you consider that leading members of the Austrian People...
Since the League of Independents ran on a more or less negative platform, it was itself perhaps surprised to have gained so large a percentage of the vote. We may say that it is pro-Nazi in the same sense that the other parties are pro-Nazi because they attempted to capture the vote of ex-Nazis. U. S. authorities in Austria, however, are reserving judgment as to its totalitarian nature until they can observe its action in Parliament. Perhaps the Europe-traveling editors of the CRIMSON might do the same. R. Gerald Livingston...