Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pros discounted in advance the howls of conservative Southerners. But the howling began immediately. In the Senate, up rose Mississippi's triple-chinned James O. Eastland and cried: "The Southern wing of the party will not follow Mr. Hague's direction and will not vote for any candidate ... we think is inimical to the welfare of our people...
Casting a vote in favor of the Center was a letter, also in the new Alumni Bulletin, from John A. Holabird '42, enumerating the difficulties he encountered as both an undergraduate and a graduate while helping produce plays under the limited University facilities...
Nine out of every ten undergraduates approached by HLU members signed the petition, which urged Congress to vote favorably on legislation backing the Marshall Plan and not to cut down appropriations for foreign relief...
...before the United Nations with a seemingly insoluble problem, with diametrically opposed viewpoints, and consent to arbitrate their differences. A speech by the Indian delegate charging Moslem aggression, a five and a half hour talkathen by the Pakistan Foreign Minister Mohammaz Zafrullah Khan indicting India for "genocide," a quick vote and the discussion moved into the offices of M. van Langenhowe, Chairman of the Security Council...
...when Foot gave the Tories the other barrel in The Trial of Mussolini, Beaverbrook dropped him as editor. Since mid-1944, Foot has done his sharpshooting from his column in the Laborite Daily Herald. ("The central problem of Toryism remains the same: how to get the poor to vote for the rich man's cause...