Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secretary-treasurer of the C.I.O., knew that his fight to oust the Communist-line triumvirate could never amount to more than a test of strength for future battles. On the second day Carey made his bid: a resolution to bar Communists from union office. It never came to a vote. By a landslide majority of 2,827 to 679, U.E. delegates substituted a plank guaranteeing "every member all rights and privileges . . . including the right to hold any position . . . regardless of craft, age, sex, nationality, race, creed or political belief...
...anticipated, Connecticut Republicans last week nominated vote-getting Raymond E. Baldwin as their off-year candidate for the U.S. Senate. To succeed Baldwin as governor the G.O.P. pinned its hopes on tall, quick-tongued James L. McConaughy, head of United China Relief and onetime college president (Wesleyan, Knox). Said McConaughy (rhymes with Donahey) to the delegates: "No one has ever named an apple after me. You are taking a chance in choosing a candidate with a name as hard to spell and pronounce as McConaughy." His almost certain Democratic opponent: ex-Price Boss Chester Bowles...
...rose to leave the room. "You can't do that!" cried Australia's Colonel William R. Hodgson. "You are a servant of this Commission." Kisselev kept going, was dutifully followed by the delegates from Russia, the Ukraine, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. The Western quorum stayed to pass a vote of censure. This week Russia abandoned its attempt to give Bulgaria a slice of Greek Thrace...
Chileans could expect a shower of sparks for the next six years. If Congress approved charming, explosive Gabriel Gonzalez Videla's 50,000-vote plurality (not a majority) in last week's elections, Chile would be getting its liveliest president in many a political moon...
Many of the 70,000-odd U.S. citizens living in Canada have voted in recent Canadian elections, and have thus automatically lost their U.S. citizenship. Most did so through 1) ignorance of the law, and 2) inefficiency of Canadian election officials. (Technically, only "British subjects" may vote in Canada, but seldom is any attempt made to check that qualification.) Said one expatriate: "We had to pay taxes so we figured we could just go ahead and vote...