Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Water. That was the situation in many a hot spot. Said a Philadelphia Democrat: "If they vote on local issues, we might make it. If they vote on national issues, we're out." Said a top labor leader in Washington: "This just about kills the P.A.C.'s hope of electing a liberal House." Said one national strategist: "If some thing like this happened in a presidential election year, it would be curtains...
...effect, he had asked Frenchmen to reject the coalition constitution when they vote on it next month. In effect, he had said: this assembly has failed, elect another. He had also openly repudiated the majority M.R.P., the party which had backed him until his resignation from the presidency last January. The beautiful marriage of De Gaulle and the M.R.P. seemed to have gone permanently on the rocks. But he coyly refrained from betrothing himself publicly to the growing Gaullist Union, headed by René Capitant, which had announced that it would fight the constitution, put up candidates in the next...
...vote of confidence, the Assembly supported the Government's refusal to grant strikers an immediate wage boost. But headaches were only beginning: long-suffering functionaries of the Ministry of National Education-and even the police -threatened to join the strike this week...
...good juridical case for claiming the colony, and the whole business has now become a matter of national pride. Said one British official: "We bloody well ought to let them have it; it would serve them right." That might be the official view, but if it came to a vote most Beliceños would probably stay British...
...then they were not convinced. Reports claim that these back-room sessions were "smoke-filled and heated." But while the document lay on a table in Phillips Brooks House for thirty days, waiting for someone to raise an objection (which would have caused further discussion, but still no student vote), Harvard was too absorbed in the Tercentenary Celebration to worry about a Student Council. So the present system, elections, or rather lack of elections, complete absence of all student control over Council spending, and the most fantastic amending mechanism this side of Moscow, all became the law of the land...