Word: voting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ride back to town. (This brought guffaws from the spectators.) Then a shoe repairman and a taxi driver admitted that they had each received $25 for warning fellow Negroes away from the polls. A white Catholic priest, who had asked polling officials why his parishioners were not allowed to vote, had received the answer: "No Negroes are going to vote in Pass Christian [Miss.] unless they paint their faces white...
...Chicago, Colonel Robert R. McCormick's arch-Republican Tribune suggested a scheme to penalize states which will not let all their citizens vote...
...second section of the 14th Amendment [to the U.S. Constitution] says, in effect, that any state which denies Negroes the right to vote shall have its representation in Congress reduced in proportion to the number suffering discrimination. [Thus if] the right of Mississippi Negroes to vote was infringed, Mississippi's representation in the House should be cut from seven to perhaps four or five...
...firemen: Connecticut's hand some new Representative John Davis Lodge and wife (onetime dancer Francesca Braggiotti); retiring liaison man John Danaher; Indiana's Charles Halleck, probably next House majority leader; and all the other GOPsters from far & near who put up the cash and get out the vote...
...provincial constitutions, into three groups. In Group A, which comprised the bulk of British India, the Hindus would have a huge majority. Group B was the predominantly Moslem Northwest. The trouble narrowed down to Group C in the East, consisting of Bengal and Assam. Nehru said that the vote in the Assembly should be cast by provinces, which would let him take advantage of the 7-to-3 Hindu majority in Assam. Jinnah said that the vote should be cast for Group C as a whole. In this way his 33to-27 majority in Bengal would wipe out the Hindu...