Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bureaucrats, more spiteful than high-minded, for it would disqualify some of the nation's most competent men. When the Chair announced the reconsideration, a stormy wave of protest rose from the little politicians and beat upon the heads of the big ones. In the final vote, however, the leadership amended the troublesome amendment to read: 'Incumbent officials may not be elected to the Assembly from their own constituencies...
...Legislative Yuan will have a limited control over the Executive Yuan (Cabinet) and can force its views on the Cabinet, or force the Cabinet to resign, by a two-thirds majority vote...
...original duties of ancient Rome's two censors were to preside over the census. The censors determined the duties owed the community by each citizen, eventually became judges of both public and private morals. They could exclude individuals from public functions, sack a senator or deny the vote to a citizen. Finally their power was extended to actual selection of the senate...
...Ecuador, where three out of five cannot read or write, few are eligible to vote, or able to read a newspaper. Three years ago, the National Journalists' Union decided to do something about it. By last week, 100,000 Ecuadorians had learned their ABCs at one of 2,740 literacy centers scattered through the nation's remote highland valleys and coastal lowlands...
...like Clapper, a hard digger, a writer whose prose has no wings, a liberal whose roots are not Marxian but native. Stokes is also a man with a merciless conscience: by sympathy a New Dealer from the start, he won his Pulitzer Prize by exposing a WPA vote-getting machine in Senator Alben Barkley's Kentucky...