Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Today's vote on AYD will follow hour-long discussion of the major issue currently before the Council whether or not the 'Cliffe Student Government is willing to charter partisan political groups...
...bill which he placed before the legislature, he offered all other Southern states a model way in which to count Harry Truman out. The bill would simply keep Harry Truman's name-or that of any other candidate-off the ballot. Instead of voting for President and Vice President, the voter would cast his ballot for the party. Presidential electors would be bound to support the party's nominees -unless a state party convention ordered them to vote for another candidate before they went to the Electoral College. The bill had Senator Harry Byrd's blessing. That...
...toured the state's back parishes, sweating geniality, whomping out Dogpatch oratory, and invoking the magic name of brother Huey (whom he had called a "big-bellied coward" in 1931), the voters found him irresistible. In last week's run-off election, Louisiana gave him the greatest vote ever polled by one candidate-with 44 of 1,878 precincts still to be counted, his total was 422,766. Sam Houston ("Sad Sam") Jones, the "good government" candidate who had beaten Earl for the governorship in 1940 and broken the back of the old Huey Long machine, got only...
...primary. In Wisconsin, which Dewey had confidently neglected, Stassen had suddenly forged ahead, was now conceded to hold the lead. Belatedly, Dewey strategists noticed that their slate in the April 6 primary lacked outstanding names. Secretary of State Fred Zimmerman, the state's most potent vote-getter, who had helped Dewey defeat Willkie in the 1944 primary, had deserted to head the Mac-Arthur forces. Sparked by Senator Joe McCarthy, the Stassenmen had put on a razzle-dazzle campaign, now claimed most of the state organization. Hastily, Dewey dispatched three trusted lieutenants to set up headquarters in Milwaukee, retrieve...
Last week Premier Robert Schuman had the narrowest squeak of his three-months career as France's first minister. Annoyed by criticism of one of his deflation measures, doughty M. Schuman had asked for a vote of confidence. He won-by 23 votes...