Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sound truck futiley blared forth Kerin's praises to the Brookline electorate throughout the day announcing that the way to "eliminate inefficiency" and to "get good government" was to vote "for a program, not a promise...
...strongly entrenched unions in the University dining halls today threatened to strike unless College officials conceded their demands for higher wages and a closed shop. As a result of a secret, almost unanimous vote late Monday night the cooks and waitresses, who represent 90 percent of Harvard's kitchen workers, decided to walk out on Monday unless the officials capitulate immediately...
...yesterday's vote indicates the workers' good health, a more moderate stand will show their good sense. Discretion should follow their moment of defiance; their exuberant independence should be accompanied by a realistic facing of economic facts. They may regard their dues as insurance against possible injustice at the hands of the University, but six bits does not buy them the right to hold up such a currently liberal employer as John Harvard...
...yesterday by the Cambridge Teachers' Union is a manifesto for educational democracy. In its very essence it is a plea for democratization of the procedures of appointment and tenure. This plea takes practical form in proposals that all members of each department, from instructors to full professors, form a voting body, that they elect their own chairman, that they select by vote a democratic committee on appointments which shall make all recommendations...
...Sophomore's loudspeaker lobby bombarded the electorate with such slogans as "Vote for a program, not a promise; elect Kerins;" "Eliminate inefficiency: elect Kerins," and "Vote for Kerins and get good government...