Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rather appealed to me to have the chance to vote for a man as courageously honest as Bob Taft, much as I disliked many ... of his views. But the above statement goes far beyond what the most ardent admirer of mere courage could follow...
Actually, the message contained little that Harry Truman had not recommended in scattershot fashion before. But by failing to assign any order or priority to his sweeping proposals, the President was obviously, and shrewdly, gunning for every vote he could reach...
...flat $40 tax cut for every taxpayer (and each dependent), to be balanced by in creased corporation rates (from 38% to approximately 50%). The President's plan would not change the total of existing revenues. But it would give some tax relief to low-income taxpayers (who vote), and take it out of the hides of corporations...
...Where we expected almost everyone to vote to deconvert, only 20 to 30 supported this policy," he said. "It now is obvious that the students prefer to stay doubled up rather than reduce the number of men admitted at this time...
...centered around the futile and ludicrous efforts of a City Council to elect a mayor from among the members of the Council. To date they have held 319 ballots, and no one has been chosen, though at a point early in the balloting one of the actors had four votes and needed only his own to make him mayor of the city. Fortunately he was too modest to vote for himself. That would have spoiled the whole performance...