Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canada's 21st general election, the Liberal Party was a shoo-in. An hour and 16 minutes after the vote-counting started in Eastern Canada and long before the polls closed on the West Coast, it was obvious that the people wanted no change in the government they had had for the last 14 years. By the time the whole country was heard from, the Liberals were back in office with the greatest majority in their party's history...
...threat never came off. St. Laurent, a French Canadian, proved the perfect answer to the cardinal rule of Canadian politics: never lose the French vote. French-speaking Quebec went Liberal almost 100%. (In Montreal, the only nonLiberal candidate elected was mammoth Mayor Camillien Houde, who ran as an independent.) In the traditional Tory stronghold of Ontario, St. Laurent's well organized campaign helped his party trim down the Tory vote. In the Maritimes and the West, it was the same story. Commentators used the word "tidal wave" as the Liberals ran up a parliamentary majority (132) and far beyond...
...that would not get Mary Terrell into the Washington chapter. As soon as the vote was counted, Washington made its decision: it seceded from the association. It was a pity, sighed the quietly disgusted New York Times, "because women with the advantage of a college degree really ought to know better, and because women representing the capital of this democracy ought at the least to act as though they believed in democracy...
...cases (and the court may choose the cases which it will consider) had to do with the rights of citizens in a democracy. The court upheld, though tentatively, the right of a Negro to live where he liked. It upheld his right to equal schooling, and to the vote-leaving the details to Southern legislatures. After first backing & filling on questions involving Jehovah's Witnesses, the court finally upheld the right of that sect to propagandize religious bigotry even on a man's front stoop; on a technicality of the law, a majority upheld the right of rabble...
...upset by any threat of a crop failure, too soon for most voters to be deeply worried about Canada's darkening business outlook. Most important of all, the June election gave the fighting Opposition Leader, George Drew, the shortest possible time to organize his ranks and drum up vote-getting issues...