Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know that the word "freedom" means different things to different people and so we want to find out, for instance, what the French Socialist thinks as compared to the American private enterpriser. In each country, therefore, we are asking for opinions about private ownership of business, the right to vote in a fair and free election, protection from interference by the police, the right to work at any job, and the right of free speech...
...Gadget. Since women acquired the vote, they had become a potent, if erratic, political force. Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach spoke them fair, pointed out that women now constitute 28% of the labor force (they are also 50.8% of the voting population). President Truman came, paid respectful tribute to the power of their purses,* had words of high praise for one woman: "Mrs. Roosevelt has made a wonderful contribution to the nation [in her work with U.N.] since the President died." (He added, disarmmgly: "He is the only one I ever think of as President...
...country's foreign policy has been made in Moscow, but the republic has maintained the forms, and most of the freedoms, of a parliamentary democracy -even with a Red Premier. The Communists got only the 38% voice in government their 38% of the vote allotted them. But at week's end the non-Communist cabinet ministers, having failed to budge Nosek with their boycott, had laid the crisis in Benes' lap by resigning their posts...
...promises had paid off. In their first local warm-up for the national elections on April 18, the month-old Socialist-Communist "Popular Democratic Front" elected 21 (eleven of them Communists) to the 40-man municipal council. The Socialist-Communist share of the vote had jumped from...
...well-regulated mind of Herbert Morrison, Labor's Leader of the House of Commons, there are few tendernesses for old abuses. Thus, Labor's bill to reapportion seats in Parliament called, as well, for an end to a time-honored anachronism: plural voting. With a battle cry of "One man, one vote," Laborites denounced in particular the custom of having the financial "City" of London and the graduates of British universities elect their own M.P.s*. Last week, Morrison admitted that he could never think of the ancient City of London "without having in my veins some degree...