Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friday, a victory for partition looked probable. But when the Assembly president, Brazil's Dr. Oswaldo Aranha, was about to call for a vote, the Arabs won another delay. France's Alexandre Parodi rose. France, afraid of unrest among her 13,000,000 Moslem nationals in North Africa, hesitated to support partition. "We have come to the moment of decision," said Parodi, "and I feel certain misgivings. . . ." Was there really no possible ground for compromise, he wondered? Parodi got a 24-hour recess...
...Palestine, as at Flushing Meadow, there was joy among Jews. In the early morning hours, when news of the U.N. vote reached Tel Aviv, cheering crowds danced the traditional hora. In Jerusalem and Haifa, jubilant thousands paraded the streets waving the blue & white Zionist flag. Even British Tommies joined in the fun. Jews began debating the name for their promised state. Most likely choice: New Judea, although ironically the tentative borders (see map) exclude from Jewish control most of ancient Judea...
...Assembly passed the first part of Schuman's bill (calling up 80,000 troops) by a vote of 408 to 184, which meant solid non-Communist support. Meanwhile the back-to-work movement was gaining strength. The number of strikers dropped from...
Optimistic Laborites looked upon the Gravesend victory as stemming the Tory advance in last month's borough elections (TIME, Nov. 10). More cautious ones noted that Labor's vote in Gravesend had increased by only 3,083 since 1945, while the Tory vote increased by 8,464. "We've held the seat," said one Labor manager, "but we must heed the warning that the Tories increased their vote a good deal more. We can't afford that...
...Statesmen. The hard core of the opposition stayed drunk for three full days. Purpose of this blueprinted binge was not escape, but sabotage of the hated measure (a mild bill for government control of Japan's coal mines). When the Speaker called for a preliminary vote, alcoholic catcalls greeted him. Then surow mow (slow motion) set in. Opposition members slowly sauntered to the ballot box. One of them, loudly complaining of an injured leg, took two minutes to climb the six-step rostrum to the ballot box. Others, magnificently squiffed, zigzagged through the chamber, stopped to chat with friends...