Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feel impelled to take strong objection to the editorial in the Crimson entitled "For Students Only." It attacks a "religious organization within the college" because it "has seen fit to send postcards to its members reminding them to vote for 'their' candidate in the impending election of delegates to the Chicago Student Conference...
...will be necessary first to review the facts, since the Crimson misrepresented them: The organization is the Catholic Club. The postcard sent out by them did not remind anyone to vote for any candidate. It said, (and I quote the exact words used) "The Catholic Club nominee is James Sullivan. We urge you to vote." That was all. The writer of the postcard was obviously very careful to avoid saying that the members of the Club should vote for "their" nominee; he merely urged them to vote, and certainly no, one can take exception to that...
Women also got a break. The new President asked Congress to give them the right to vote and hold office in municipalities. (Feminist leaders immediately met to form a Women's Party, broke up in invective and fisticuffs...
...outfit devoted to the "free flow of information," they were mighty secret about it. As the delegates filed into UNESCO House in Paris (the old Hotel Majestic) to vote, three armed and mustachioed policemen checked their credentials. The press gallery was cleared, the communications system shut off. Huxley received 22 votes; three countries voted against him and two abstained...
Certainly, said he, the N.A.M. hoped to rectify "the unbalanced collective bargaining relationship between labor and management." But business must remember that U.S. voters "did not vote to destroy unions or to do away with collective bargaining; to deny labor the right to strike or to wipe out its legitimate gains...