Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Student Council last night gave final approval, by a 9 to 1 vote, to a new Freshman Constitution, based on an elected rather than an appointed Union Committee...
...peace imposed by the victors. He had rounded up 18 Southerners, 22 Republicans and twelve "non-confederate" Democrats, mostly from the border states. Thus reinforced, with full control of the Senate, Wherry went on the floor, whooped through his "compromise" resolution to end the filibuster by a 6340-23 vote...
...Reds vociferously carried the issue into the weekend's cantonal elections. They were rebuffed. The vote showed 61% of the French electorate in favor of the Atlantic pact, 15% (the Socialists) noncommittal, only 24% opposed...
...sound & fury failed. Kept alert by strong black coffee, sleeping by turns inside the chamber, the anti-Communists outlasted their opponents. By a brisk vote of 342-170, De Gasperi sailed through with authority to join the Atlantic pact (he had still to win Senate approval). Togliatti bawled: "You will have to reckon with the Italian people!" Fellow Traveler Nenni echoed: "The fight has just begun!" Government supporters triumphantly sang the national anthem-"Brothers of Italy ... of Italy awakened." Marxists responded with Garibaldi's defiant old war chant-"Foreigners, get out of Italy...
...some figures released last week by the Oxford University Institute of Statistics. These show, that in the years 1938-47, the real income after taxes of the British middle class* dropped 9%, while that of the working class rose 7%. To hold its part of the middle-class vote, the Labor government checked this trend in 1948, but the Oxford report expects it to be resumed: "The movement toward equality is quite noticeable," it concludes...