Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should be made clear that students cannot be treated as the "fellow citizens of Cambridge" to which your appeal is addressed. Our anomalous position has led to the unification of our charitable contributions through the Service Fund, the distribution of which among charities is determined by student vote...
...strongest party with about 40 percent of the Parliament seats. There are three other parties, the National Socialist (not Nazi) in second place. Meanwhile, the Slovaks are operating with four other parties, that have no connection with the Czech organizations. The Communists, who have about 28 percent of the votes in Slovakia, have no organizational ties with the Communists here, although they're probably never seen arguing very much. The big party in Slovakia is something called the Democratic Party, which controls about 62 percent of the vote. In it are all the dregs of the extreme Right as well...
Norris, by the vote of the American Athletic Association last Saturday night in Omaha, Nebraska, is now the national long distance swimming champion of the United States. Some half dozen years age he was limping about in a cast in Richmond, Vs., with medical opinion divided on whether he would ever be anything but a cripple...
...protest the "JA" election which was foisted upon the student body by the Student Council today. On the ballot, under the heading "University-Wide" Food Conservation Poll" the student body was told, in a more three paragraphs, of all the wonderful things a "yes" vote would accomplish. Nothing appeared on the ballot to state the case for a "no" vote...
...Squirrel-toothed Joe DiMaggio (TIME, July 14), the man who makes the World Champion New York Yankees run, won the Baseball Writers' award as the American League's "most valuable player of 1947." One vote behind him: unlucky Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox, who also finished second to Joe six years ago, after batting a spectacular .406. The National League's most valuable player: Third-Baseman Bob Elliot of the third-place Boston Braves...