Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Latins were somewhat startled when the U.S. turned up voting for India's unpredictable Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. Eleven ballots have been taken, including two this week, and neither Manuilsky nor Mrs. Pandit has won the necessary two-thirds vote, because the Latin Americans and the rest of the Western bloc are split...
...picked up the fluttering leaflets and, without a glance at their words, lighted them with matches-a hundred little torches blazing in the gloom. The Church helped Premier Alcide de Gasperi's Christian Democrats as never before. Said one priest from the pulpit: "He who fails to vote commits a most grievous sin. Catholics must see that Christ's cross and not the hammer & sickle rises above the Campanile of Capitol Hill...
...result of Rome's municipal election: the Christian Democratic vote was up to 204,000 (from last November's 103,000). But as with the Gaullists...
Gallup pollsters reported that if a federal election were held now, the Liberals would get 43% of the popular vote (they got 41% in the 1945 election); Tories 28% (29% in 1945); CCF 16% (15%); other parties...
Winding up a drive started last February for affiliation with Students for Democratic Action, leaders of the Harvard Liberal Union last night secured a vote of 47-5 in favor of joining SDA in "an autonomous status" demanding adherence only to the national organization's basic principles...