Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days, the Senate listened indifferently to the arguments of a small rear guard of New Dealers against the Taft-Hartley labor bill. When the vote came, 17 Democrats joined the Republicans to pass the bill, 54 to 17. The House had already passed it, 320 to 79-plenty of votes, if the lines held, to override a presidential veto...
...general territorial property tax, corporate net income tax, a personal income tax which would tap the salaries of 12,000 migrant fish and cannery workers and thousands of other laborers who took their salaries to Seattle each autumn. He deplored the fact that Alaskans could not vote for a U.S. President, could not send Senators and a Congressman to Washington to fight their battles. He argued for statehood-and the abolition...
...Yugoslavia, Marshal Tito jailed his only real opposition, scholarly Dragolyub Yovanovich, a lone "No" vote in a Communist Government. Yovanovich was charged with being a "spy" for the U.S. Some time ago Tito had said: "Those who persist in hindering the creation of a better future . . . will have to disappear from the face of the earth." Since Tito made this ominous threat a number of "spies" had been executed...
According to the rules laid down by their hostess, the gentlemen would have to bid in cold cash (which would go to a charity) for the ladies they wished to escort during the impending quest. Some of the ladies objected; after a democratic vote, the majority went along with the auction plan. So Master-of-Ceremonies Baron Stanley of Alderley (he's terribly good at this sort of thing) mounted a chair in the sitting room. Cried he: "Now, who wants Loelia?" (the recently divorced Duchess of Westminster). Bidding was sluggish, and the ex-Duchess finally went for seven...
...contemporary Europe, especially in Italy, many churchgoing Catholics vote Communist. Recently, when Italy's Premier De Gasperi boasted that 99% of Italians were Catholics, Communist Leader Togliatti reminded him that 4,000,000 Italians voted Communist in the last national election (TIME, April...