Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...striped trousers and wing collar for the occasion. His double chin quivered as he attacked Harry Truman's civil rights program, (anti-poll tax, antilynching, antidiscrimination, antisegregation) as an "unwarranted assault upon the established customs and traditions of the entire Southland." Too long, he cried, had "the electoral vote of the South been counted . . . even before it was cast. . . . The people of the Southern states have been placed upon .the sacrificial altar to appease racial and other minority fringe groups...
...chief difference between the measure which received a favorable vote and the Barnes Bill in that the latter places responsibility for detecting and removing Communists on school officials, while the former leaves all action to civil authorities and the courts...
...final vote on the Teachers' Oath-Sedition Law amendment will be taken in the House tomorrow. If the vote in favorable--and the size of today's vote indicates that it will be--the bill will go to the Senate for debate...
...other two suggestions aim at improving the present method of electing regional officers, which is now by caucus at the national convention in the summer. Two problems arise: voters seldom know candidates' qualifications, and officers elected in the summer must be confirmed by a vote of the regional conference in the Fall. This time-lag leads to inertia on the part of new officers until their "second election." A nominating committee that would acquaint itself with qualifications of potential candidates before the convention, and an amendment to the constitution making the summer election final would insure the best possible officers...
...telegram expressing a vote of confidence was sent to Condon yesterday by his personal friends among the faculty. Kenneth T. Bainbridge, professor of Physics, a personal friend of Condon's since 1928, stated that the scientist was "well-fitted for his position...