Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roviano's left-wing vote had been preponderantly Communist, Anticoli's Socialist. Roviano's choice of a mayor was easy and quick-local Communist Leader Adalgiso Scacchi, a miner who picked up the gospel from Polish comrades he had worked with in the mines of France and Belgium after World War I. Sober, shrewd Scacchi was not swept off his feet by the post-election rush of citizens wanting to join his party. Said he: "Communism is something you have to learn. Sometimes it takes 20 years, often a lifetime. We only want real Communists-better...
This week the vote so far stood 470-to-89 in Matchan's favor. Don Matchan was pretty sure he'd win, but just in case, he had hedged his bet. In the trade paper Editor & Publisher last week he ran a for-sale ad: "Publisher retiring because of disagreement with business community...
...Sabrina conveniently goes crazy. But Hugh, too, has noted the tiger ish Denise, and Laird has to defend him self against various attempts at assassina tion, including one by a whole troop of Klansmen. Meanwhile he rebuilds the old Fournois estate and goes to the legislature on the vote of his Negro constituents. But he finds Reconstruction politics too hopelessly corrupt to play. In the end he loses all-except Denise...
With the possibility that the region will operate concertedly at the forthcoming convention, straw-votes were conducted on what the group thought would be major issues in Madison--an eleventh hour vote favoring affiliation with the International Union of Students...
...early conference agreement came on a revision of NSO objectives. Sharing in the majority vote was the College delegation of Charles R. Conklin '48, Francis D. Fisher '47, and Selig S. Harrison...