Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany, where the Russians had staged an election for a People's Congress in the Soviet zone (TIME, May 23), they received a stinging slap in the face. Communist Party workers got out the vote, all right, but the vote was heavily antiCommunist. The Communist press had predicted an overwhelming victory, obviously expecting the customary Red majority of 90-plus percent. The Russians resorted to their usual poll shenanigans; e.g., they counted as "yes" votes all write-in ballots with remarks like "No more concentration camps!" and "Liberty!" Nevertheless, after mulling the returns over for two days, the Russians...
Along with Zilliacus, the Labor executive committee expelled 43-year-old Barrister Leslie Judah Solley, member for Thurrock, Essex. Solley had publicly opposed British policy in Greece, voted against participation in the European Recovery Program. Fired from their jobs, though not from the party, were five of the cabinet's parliamentary private secretaries* who had voted against the government's bill to establish Britain's relationship with Ireland. Said one of the purged, ruefully: "If you vote against the government on a 'three line whip' [direct orders from party whips to vote] you are sticking...
When Klapper informed Quinn that faculty meetings were closed to outsiders, the Councilman said, "If I am barred, it is only for one reason--they are hiding something." The president then asked the faculty if Quinn could be allowed in; the vote was unanimously in the negative...
After the councilman had retired, the faculty took its vote. It was 55 to 42 to uphold the student council and end the A.Y.D. Klapper commented: "The A.Y.D. has been put off the campus and we intend to keep it off. The faculty has done the right thing in banning this organization...
Announcing the vote, Dean Kiely stated: "Because American Youth for Democracy is in conflict with the best interests of the college, the faculty moves that it be banned from the campus." The student council registered disapproval of this decision; but the decision stuck...