Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election had been quiet and unemotional, but there was no mistaking the fact that the majority of Americans had cast a protest vote. It was a cold but nonetheless angry voice raised against many things: price muddles, shortages, black markets, strikes, Government bungling and confusion, too much Government in too many things. The majority of the people were fed up with all that...
...attorney, Thomas W. Eliot '28, told the CRIMSON last night that Rankin's action "puts it squarely up to the whole committee whether they endorse Rankin's star chamber methods or not. If they vote the citation of contempt, they accept star chamber principal because the alleged incident of contempt occurred as a result of star chamber proceedings...
...fate of the contempt action was still not clear last night. While Congress is not in session, a committee can vote a contempt citation and submit it to the Speaker, when then turns it over to the District Attorney. The last step is grand jury action, possible indictment, and they trial
...latest developments in the arms picture indicate that both Russia and the United States are favorable to early discussion but there is no indication when the matter will come up. It stands No. 7 on the agenda of the political committee, behind three vote item and Russia's pointed questions on the dispositions of allied troops in alien non-enemy countries. All of these are bound to bring about prolonged debate...
Mention of a "third world war" flared up in the social, humanitarian and cultural affairs committee when Leo Mattes, of Yugoslavia, protested bitterly against a committee vote. Mattes had asked that the proposed international refugee organization in resetting refugees consider the wishes of neighboring countries as well as the country of reception...