Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...form of Universal Military Training has finally reached the House Rules Committee. The bill, H.R. 4278, is now pigconholed there by a six to six deadlock of the group. However, there are indications that the proponents of the measure will be able to sway to their side the one vote necessary to put the issue on the floor of the House...
...lure of the Wallace symbol on issues of civil liberties and domestic reaction, ADA bases its appeal to liberals on opposition to Wallace's anti-Marshall Plan stand. Sacrificing the democracy of Western Europe, it claims, is "too high a price to pay for the luxury of a 'protest vote...
...sentiment of that, October 19 gathering weighed heavily on the side of the last of the three proposals. Only one vote, that of Richard G. Axt '46, of the fourteen members of the Committee was recorded in favor of the Student Activities Center, and one, that of Dr. Augustus Thorndike '19, for the Medical Center...
...first suggestion of argument over the point came after last spring's Faculty vote abolishing all "emergency" legislation enacted during the war. This Faculty decision had presumably included in its abolitions the required mid-term grades instituted to help students about to be untimely snatched by the armed forces, but a dispute arose over certain wordings. To clarify the situation finally, the Faculty Committee on Educational Policy passed a new resolution this fall, but the Faculty as a whole decided to withhold its vote until the Council's opinion had been heard...
...course we don't want to register people who are going to vote against some of our policies," said Clifton, "but you've just got to take and think the thing out. And I hope I'm not giving you the impression that laborers are easy to convince on political views...