Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sophomores, Juniors, and first-term Seniors will go to the polls throughout the college tomorrow to elect Student Council class representatives. Dudley balloting is scheduled today so that all commuters may vote...
...only men completely ineligible to vote tomorrow are second-term Seniors, but Freshmen living in the Houses will have to vote at the Union while upperclassmen not living in the Houses must vote at Dudley or in any of the Houses...
...Labor's spring strike fever had given the nation a new fit of chills. The House, even more constituent-conscious than labor-shy, reacted with a stunning strike-curb bill, then clinched its purpose by passing the measure by a stunning majority-308 to 107-plenty of votes to override a presidential veto. With the 215 Republicans, 93 Democrats broke ranks to vote for the bill...
...long way from being law. On the other side of Congress, Senator Robert Taft's almost equally tough labor proposition had been flattened into a pancake by his own committee. The Senate would be more cautious in its labor legislation; in fact, some members of the House voted as they did because they felt secure in that belief. But the House's impressive vote also strengthened Taft, who now might be able to restore much of his bill. But whatever happened-a compromise between the two houses, a possible presidential veto even of the compromise -the House action...
...week's end the International Executive Board adopted, by a 10-to-3 vote, a resolution deploring Murray's "intemperate statements . . . which create the impression that a Communist emergency exists in the Guild." This did not mean that Eubanks & Co. denied Communist influence in certain locals. It did mean that they thought the Guild could handle the Communists-without Murray's help...