Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thank you for clearing the mystery of the missing Mr. Hollenbeck, sometime newscaster for WJZ [TIME, Aug. 26]. If Radio should have a Man of the Year, he has one solid family vote on two counts: superior presentation of the news; and the long-suppressed blurt against noxious commercials, which apparently cost him that...
Everyone, that is, but Johnny. His white cap cocked, Harry Lundeberg gave his considered opinion of "those phonies" in Washington. "I warned Schwellenbach and the WSB that when this union takes a strike vote it means it. Old sister Schwellenbach keeps calling me but he's wasting the taxpayers' money. Even Ma Perkins was better than him. We're not playing politics, we're counting our economic strength...
...captive of Albany's notorious O'Connell machine, but the convention stage managers built a whoop-it-up show around him, paraded him, Jim Mead and dignified Herbert Lehman around the hall in red jeeps, got set to make a drive for the veterans' vote...
...Saxony the German vote was less decisive and the result completely different. Result: victory for the SED. But the SED had polled only 48% of the total votes cast. The other 52% was shared among the Liberal and Christian Democratic parties. Most striking fact: the center of SED support had shifted to the country; the land reform program had pulled an unexpectedly heavy leftist vote. In industrial cities like Dresden, Leipzig, Plauen, Zwickau, traditional cradles of German leftism, the labor vote split wide open. But power remained in the hands of the Russians and their pet party, which, will control...
...balding schoolteacher, Guy Mollet, and a phalanx of 60-odd associates, the left wing of the French Socialist Party rebelled against Léon Blum's moderate, anti-Communist leadership. By a vote of 2,964-to-1,363 (with 145 abstentions), the annual Party Congress rejected the Executive Bureau's activities report. General Secretary Daniel Mayer (a moderate) promptly resigned. Léon Blum pleaded with the rebels ("Participation of Communists in a government without any doubt serves the interests of Russia. It is not for us to enter into a government so that we could plant...