Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Massachusetts' House of Representatives yesterday backed with an 81 to 21 vote a bill to prevent Communists from teaching in any Commonwealth school or college...
Recent publicity for the 1934 Faculty vote eliminating the Seven Weeks' Grade" has brought to light another policy decision announced at the same time, one which has faded so completely since the war that few people known that it ever existed. This ruling, made by the Faculty after a suggestion from Dean Hanford, provided that "the return to the Dean's Office of attendance in courses taken primarily by Juniors and Seniors should be given up expect at the last meetings before and the first meetings after the Christmas and spring recesses...
...Valpey, on the other hand, is a quiet, self-effacing man who naturally expects competent assistance from his subordinates. His system of having the entire coaching staff vote on the starting lineup before every game is merely one indication of this quality...
Mirabeau lives in history as the nobleman whose defiance of the king did much to bring on the French Revolution. When Louis XVI ordered the Third Estate to vote separately from the other orders, it was Mirabeau who said: "Go and tell those who sent you that we are here by the will of the people, and that we shall not leave except by force of bayonets...
...proposal, as outlined after a unanimous vote by Senator Saltonstall and seven other members in attendance at the meeting, was not in the form of a final recommendation. The Committee, in the terms of its report, merely "agreed that it would ask for an architectural opinion as to whether or not it would be feasible (to complete the proposed elements of the memorial) within...