Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after midnight when the vote came. And then by a 53-to-15 vote, the Senate decisively rejected the nomination of New Dealer Leland Olds for a third term on the Federal Power Commission...
...skilled a congressional vote counter as Harry Truman knew that Olds had no chance. But since Olds had the undying opposition of the power lobby, the President was able to make a fine grandstand play against "the special interests." No one knew better than Harry Truman that an abrupt order to vote for Olds as a matter of party loyalty was no way to put Olds over. It only stimulated the opposition...
...good many Bostonians seemed to have a sneaking admiration for Curley's colorful past and his unabashed cupidity. The bulk of the solid citizenry who got indignant at bad government had long since moved to the suburbs and had no vote, and only one in five of the voters within the city's narrow limits were property owners...
...effect, the election called for a vote of confidence in Norway's four-year-old Socialist experiment, directed by lean, ascetic Commerce Minister Erik Brofoss, a Norse version of Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps...
When the ballots were counted, the Socialists had 46% of the votes (up 5% from 1945) and 84 seats in the 150-member Parliament. The Communists, although they managed to catch almost 6% of the popular vote, were soundly shellacked, lost ten of their eleven parliamentary seats. The Conservatives, Liberals and Christian People's Party (whose campaign strategy had been badly coordinated...