Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration sought desperately for a way out. There was talk of a bipartisan approach to the Palestine problem, which would permit the U.S., without much clatter, to go back on its support for partition. But in an election year, when the big Jewish vote in New York was of prime importance to both parties, there was little chance of an official somersault in U.S. policy...
...fought their way, cutting 23 tunnels through the Andean rock and throwing bridges across 36 chasms. In summer they battled thirst, in winter the dry snow wind (viento bianco) that blows day & night. Sometimes construction was halted for months on end because the Chilean and Argentine Congresses did not vote funds (total cost: $30 million...
Roosevelt kept secret the provisions of the Teheran agreement ceding 70,000 square miles of Polish territory to Russia. Why did he? Lane, whose bitterness towards the administrations he represented permeates the book, believes that it was simply because Roosevelt wanted to win the Polish-American vote in 1944. He tells of a State Department official who tried to prevail on Franklin Roosevelt to take a firmer policy with Stalin on Poland, only to be told : " 'You may know a lot about international affairs, but you do not understand American politics...
...emphasized that there are four active political parties represented in the Czech government, only one of which is Communist. In the coming spring elections, he said, the Communists will "probably not get" the majority of votes which would place them in a position to organize a one-party state. (At present, the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia has only a 41 percent plurality of the popular vote...
Amid the waterfall of motions, secondings, right-hand raisings, and other commonplace manifestations of parliamentary procedure that took place at last night's meeting in Adams House, one unanimous vote carried uncommon significance. The meeting, which created the Harvard-Radcliffe Committee to Save the Marshall Plan, had been dealing with the various aspects of the Marshall Plan that it felt ought to be "saved." The vote was in favor of accepting a broadly outlined four-point program, and its unanimity was significant in that it included the assent of leaders from such widely divergent groups as the Students for Democratic...