Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enough to lead the Radcliffe Deans to abandon separate exams. If they feel that the honor system in exams is a failure, they should come out and say so. If they merely feel that it would be easier to combine with Harvard, they should take heed of the Radcliffe vote before they make a final decision...
...Harry S. Truman ... Or should the honor go to John Q. Citizen, who stumped the experts and confounded the pollsters and reasserted his sacred right to vote...
...gripped hands on a determination not to commit such sinful errors again. As far as the A.P. was concerned, it had done its usual good job of reporting the state-by-state returns with speed and accuracy. But, like everybody else, it had been slow to realize that the vote was going to contradict the opinion polls. Said the New Orleans Times-Picayune's George W. Healy Jr.: "Even when Truman was leading, [A.P.] always put Dewey first, saying he was leading in ten states with say 100 electoral votes, and Truman was leading in 14 states with...
...Washington bureau, anxious to provide guidance for its members, had wired papers around the country for their latest vote estimates. It wrote 300 words of guidance but threw the story away as too inconclusive. Four years from now, sagely suggested the Washington Post's James R. Wiggins, "the A.P. should put out an hourly bulletin reminding its members that an American election is never over until the last vote is counted...
Before discussing the memorial the executive board was presented with 2,570 postcards received by the Alumni Committee for a University Memorial Activities Center. One hundred eighty cards said yes to the plaque, but 2,361 others asked alumni be permitted to vote on the choice of a war memorial...