Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atlantic City last Friday, a meeting of school and college leaders registered a vote condemning one aspect of admission policies common to many colleges, including Harvard. The particular custom under attack was a ruling that forces students taking College Board Examinations to rank colleges on a first, second, and third choice basis. The vote...
...whom shall I ask to speak for me before the National Assembly?" the woman persisted. Several names were suggested. She shook her head: "Oh, leave it. I'm not going to vote for anybody I don't know." Right away, it appeared, Chinese voters were having the kind of trouble Western voters had known since elections got beyond town-meeting stage...
...some polling places children presented the proxies of their parents, servants those of their masters. Premier Chang Chun himself had to scold the curious who pressed around to watch him write his choice: "This isn't right. We must vote in secret." But, as the Premier added, it was "the first time." Chinese hoped for improvement. Said scholarly, bespectacled Tseng Chi, head of the Chinese Youth Party: "Perhaps six years from now, at the next general election, we'll know more...
...background is in the Cuban tradition. An old anti-Machado, anti-Batista fighter, he was jailed twice for revolutionary activities, was once exiled to Miami. In October 1945, Grau made him Prime Minister, a post which he held until last April, when the cabinet, faced with a no-confidence vote in Congress, resigned. Grau promptly made Prio the new Labor Minister. In July he fought a saber duel with Senator Eduardo Chibás, opposition leader. He nicked Chibás a bit, came through himself with only bruises...
...this deal is the Adventists' plump, benign Carlyle B Haynes of Washington, B.C., who has made similar bargains with twelve other international unions during the past two years. Says he: "We believe that we ought not to be tied up in any organization which by a majority vote can bind us to a course of action contrary to our religious convictions...