Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midnight, the U.A.W. would be forced to give up its union shop or go to the NLRB for an election on it. At 11:59 p.m. the U.A.W. had not made up its mind. Obligingly, Ford signed a contract which would put the choice up to a workers' vote...
...among Bolivia's propertied rulers, the one-in-ten who have a vote, there was crisis. The uneasy coalition of "national unity" that President Enrique Hertzog set up as an aftermath to last year's lamppost revolution had nearly collapsed...
General Meeting. The big event of the school week is the Friday night meeting of the general assembly. Neill believes that it is impossible to be progressive unless the children govern themselves completely. The general meeting is presided over by a student chairman. Each child has a vote. The vote of a four-year-old counts just as much as Neill's or any other teacher's. All school problems are brought before the meeting and suitable punishments (for offenses such as excessive rowdyism or chronic stealing) are voted by a show of hands...
...business about the airline bill, once when he went down to Sam Pryor's "very modest bungalow-type house" at Florida's Kobe Sound, "in Senator Pepper's area." (Snorted Democrat Pepper, a committee member, "The kind of people who live [there] don't usually vote...
...more or less. Besides, the day was sizzling hot, with temperatures up to 106°. But the few Negroes who showed up at the polls were mostly permitted to vote without challenge. Thus, the constitutional issue raised by the new law was not sharply joined. There was only one instance of violence. In the tiny town of Moselle, four white men got into a shooting-scrape over letting Negroes vote; one was killed...