Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vote, the University-wide Committee on Discrimination last night adopted a motion which will establish a picket line in front of the Club 100 this evening...
...Churchill served notice that he intended to propose a vote of censure this week, the Mother of Parliaments was not exactly furnishing to younger democracies an example of deliberative calm...
Last week, as the state Supreme Court deliberated, the Journal diplomatically kept mum lest it be accused of trying to influence the Court. But the Journal's two G-men, Goodwin and Gregory, were still digging. They had received tips of vote-fixing in Cherokee County (55 votes had been added after the returns reached Atlanta). And they were poking around in Rockingham precinct (one of the two precincts in the state which gave Hummon, a write-in candidate, more votes than the regular Democratic nominee, ol' Gene). The Journal's Managing Editor William Kirkpatrick contentedly indicated...
...split in CAB's thinking was plain to see last week when CAB approved, by a 4-to-1 vote, a 90% boost in Chicago and Southern's mail pay on its New Orleans-Havana route. The lone dissenter was CAB's newest member and chairman, James McCauley Landis. Landis, who usually gets what he wants, was bent on taking a hard, realistic look at the rates and routes awarded by CAB in the past. He did not think that subsidies should be boosted to make up for CAB's mistakes in granting routes...
Although President Truman in his speech to the Congress last Wednesday failed to mention the Soviet Union by name, subsequent newspaper and Congressional comment has made explicit what was merely implicit in the lines of his address: the President was not asking the Congress to vote him $400,000,000 with which to aid Greece and Turkey in the ensuing fifteen months. He was asking that the United States embark upon a gigantic "containing operation" of the Soviet Union, a program whose vastness both in time and money dwarf completely the expenditure and time limit he cited...