Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reader McNaughton is right as rain. In explaining the big Democratic vote in normally Republican farm areas, TIME failed to point out that many U.S. farmers were not as lucky as Farmer Roth. Those who did not have enough Government-approved storage of their own could qualify for Government loans on their grain surplus only by storing it in Government bins. When the Republican Both Congress refused to appropriate funds to build additional Government storage space, many farmers were unable to find room for all their crops, hence were unable to get crop loans on their surplus, and voted...
Ryan's 45,000 rank & file, who had disregarded a previous agreement which Ryan had made, accepted the terms by an overwhelming vote. Some 250 ships in ports from Maine to Virginia, tied up for 18 days at an estimated loss of $30,000,000 a day in New York City alone, began to move. Longshoremen began loading some $36,000,000 worth of piled-up Marshall Plan cargoes...
...Toombs County, adjoining Montgomery County, where a Negro was shot to death last September for daring to vote in the Democratic primary (TIME, Sept. 20), Mallard was clearly living dangerously. On the warm Saturday night of November 20, driving along a country road with his wife, Amy, their son and two young Negroes, Robert Mallard was killed. A single shot pierced the windshield and slammed into his chest. Amy, a schoolteacher, said that white-robed men had blocked the road with cars and shot Mallard...
...Student Council will vote Monday, on proposed rules for undergraduate publications. The Council ordered new regulations to be drawn up after the University refused to recognize the now defunct New Student last spring...
...with increased knowledge of the candidates has come increased emphasis on the right to vote. This right should not be hampered by an obsolete and not entirely democratic electoral structure. The Lodge Plan seems the most practical substitute for the present structure, the most practical way to achieve presidential elections that truly represent the nation's choice...