Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perry saw little hope of alleviating the difficulty in an informal statement to the CRIMSON. "Any alteration in the policy," he said, "would have to be directed by a vote of the corporation. It is out of my hands...
...vote had been counted. Score: for a republic, 4,103,000; for the King, 179,275. Promptly the National Assembly had proclaimed the People's Republic. There was nothing left for Bulgaria's nine-year-old Simeon II to do but join his grandfather, Italy's ex-King Victor Emmanuel, in Egypt. This week, Simeon and his mother packed for exile...
...goatee. The other candidate. Dr. Enoc Aguado, a prepossessing lawyer with few relatives, was named by the opposition in Somoza's absence. An American in Nicaragua described him as "the kind of man who. if he were a candidate for President of the U.S.. would get my vote." But Aguado was president of the 1939 Congress that extended Tacho's dictatorial powers...
...Holy Ghost, then, wearing their plain black robes, filed into the Hall of Elections. After an exhortation on the qualities most needed in the new General, electors knelt for the prescribed hour of prayer and meditation. The hour past, each elector read the oath: "I swear that my vote has been guided only by the interest of the Church and the Society of Jesus," dropped his ballot...
...free entertainment at a Smoker there. The audit of the Student Council Treasurer, as provided by the Constitution, is entirely too perfunctory to afford such assurance. Certain choice details such as the $800 loan granted the Freshman Class in May of 1945 without even the formality of a Council vote, might prompt the undergraduate to look further. But other expenditures would only emphasize the complete divorce that he, and students like him, have accepted from the control of the money he pledges. The expenditure of $275 in five years for private Council dinners and Council pictures is not an expense...