Word: voting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Berlin "is situated on the territory" of the East German state. But any Western words or actions displeasing to Moscow -a U.S. Navy plane dropping flares near a Soviet tanker in the Pacific, a London hint that sending Russian scientists into British laboratories calls for reciprocity, a U.N. committee vote calling on Communist North Korea to allow free elections for unifying the country-cause Communist hands to be raised in righteous protest against "violation of the Camp David spirit." Recently the Soviet press has been unexpectedly publishing the full text of speeches by Dean Acheson and Christian Herter. Finally...
...wrong ("I know his faults"), but who had, nevertheless, "the deepest patriotism." Of himself, Nehru said dramatically: "If this house thinks my manner of carrying on in this situation is not adequate, then the honorable members are free to choose another Prime Minister." The result was a thunderous voice vote of confidence which drowned out the one or two "Noes" of stubborn dissenters...
...suspend all constitutional liberties. Communist Party gatherings and newspapers were banned, and the ban was later extended to the Socialist press. In the election a week later, Hitler's Nazi coalition won a Reichstag majority for the first time, though even then the Nazis' share of the vote was only 43.9%. Thereafter Hitler was able to eliminate all opposition, jail people at will, confiscate property and censor newspapers and books...
Another alumnus has suggested that Quincy residents be allowed to vote whether the graffito should remain or be painted out. This is impossible, however, for one engaging feature of a rudely scratched inscription is that it sits there, rudely scratched, until a new wall is constructed. No, whitewashing is not the answer to Quincy's digestive problems. The graffito will have to remain untroubled, until another alumnus with a sense of humor donates a curtain to hang in front...
...second letter which he has written to the Bulletin to condemn the graffito, Robert L. Buell '19 suggested that Quincy House residents be invited to vote as to whether they wish the mural to remain or to be painted...