Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having read your article on Harold Stassen [TIME, Aug. 25], the writer conducted a one-man poll on the 1948 election. The result -one Republican vote if Stassen is nominated-otherwise a vote reluctantly cast for Harry Truman. PAUL SABINE Tucson, Ariz...
Every child needs and has a right to guidance. . . . Letting children, perhaps forcing them is more accurate, to decide for themselves by popular vote ("the vote of a four-year-old counts as much as ... any teacher's") all the rules of their own conduct and government is as unreasonable and inexcusable as for one to say to a blind man, "Choose your own path-I won't say a word...
...seemed clear that if the oil deal were junked by parliamentary vote (as appeared very likely), Russia would have to back down or use force. Force was always a possibility. Red troops and their Kurdish adherents were reported massing across the border, and a U.S. observer said that north Persian cities were having "invasion jitters." Gavam did not seem unduly worried. He knew that he had friends, and that his friends expected him to stick to his guns...
...Many years ago a committee came to see me from an upstate rural county. . . . They then told me that they would let me know what the Republicans were paying for votes that year, and that if we would add a small amount to the price, we could probably elect the Democrat. A few days before the election they . . . told me that the Republican buying-price was a dollar and a half a vote, and that if we could raise the ante to a dollar seventy-five we would be successful. It is hard to admit that I was as gullible...
...A.F.L. meant to fight a bitter-end battle. Phil Murray put his signature to a 41-page document listing legal loopholes for C.I.O. lawyers to crawl through. Old Bill Green announced that the A.F.L. was planning a national work stoppage on Election Day in 1948, to get out the vote against the Congressmen who had voted for the Taft-Hartley bill...