Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vote on the Lilienthal appointment had been set for 5 p.m. For the preceding hour the Senate had been idle and Senators had strolled about the cloakrooms, smoking and gossiping. At the appointed time they walked back in. No one wanted to say much; everyone's mind was made up. In a few minutes it was all over and David E. Lilienthal-center of the most violent controversy which had touched the 80th Congress-was confirmed as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission...
...there were some signs of progress. At Makuwari, farmers and fishermen (who returned the local bosses to power) noticed at least one change. "Once officials were stiff-necked and paid no attention to ordinary people," they said. "Now they come to us and ask us as a favor to vote for them." Commented a U.S. official: "Isn't that the beginning? How else does an awareness of self-government occur, if not in the phenomena of the candidate coming, hat in hand, to ask for votes? People, even Japs and Germans, like the idea of picking their own dogcatcher...
...Write-in Vote. A better test of Japanese democracy will come later this month, in national elections for the two houses of parliament. On the broader national scene, Prime Minister Yoshida's Liberal incumbents had used the purge powers given them by General MacArthur to get rid of the leaders of the Democratic Party, their principal opposition...
...cared less about these party maneuvers than about the lack of connection between political and economic issues. In Chiba prefecture, however, occurred one small sign that politics is related to the people's lives. A farmer's wife, greeted by an aging villager near the Toofuku Temple voting place, said: "Now you have made me forget the name I've tried so hard to memorize." Said the villager: "Then vote as I did. Just write in 'kome' " (rice...
...parties. Notwithstanding this gap in representation, the committee's first meeting determined to send each organization a detailed questionnaire requesting data on current and pre-war membership, present meeting facilities, and what it would need in a new Student Activities Center. Most important, one query asked the actual membership vote supporting SAC. Questionnaires must be back in the Council's hands by Wednesday. If all organizations return them punctually with thorough and accurate information, the Council will possess the facts to prepare an authoritative report for submission to the Associated Harvard Clubs unit when it meets Commencement-time or early...