Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gain. But the Senate was looking for no intramural brawl. By a vote of 48 to 36 it accepted the McCarthy substitute, voted down the T-E-W bill by voice vote. Next day, while the House hurried the Senate housing bill to the White House, the Senate rejected, 53 to 33, a Democratic amendment including all of the President's anti-inflation requests. Then, with hardly a change, it whipped through the House bill to check inflation by reinstituting consumer credit controls and tightening the cash reserve requirements of Federal Reserve banks (see BUSINESS...
...beds. If they pass they become medical, veterinary and agricultural assistants or tribal chiefs, and are deemed eligible to look after the Bahutu, the Batwas and the long-horned cattle. The Trusteeship Council, however, thought that more natives should be sent to European universities and the people given a vote. The Belgian report to the U.N. got rather personal at one point in its 382-page, statistics-laden report. It said: "The private life of the Mwami [King] of Urundi left something to be desired when he paid visits to Usumbura [the capital]. Fortunately, his visits are no longer...
...popular vote was not so lopsided. The Liberals polled 36% to Union Rationale's 51% (13% more than in 1944). Even a Duplessis worker shook his head sadly: "Too big, too big." An anti-Duplessist summed it up more bitterly: "That guy's been driving around with a police motorcycle escort and sirens. Now I guess he'll call out the elite guard...
...Happen? The torrid, six-week campaign, in which razzle-dazzle obscured any real issues, had been right up the Duplessis alley. He promised bridges, schools, roads, and other local vote-catchers. He hammered away hardest of all on provincial autonomy, French Canadian nationalism, the menace of Communism...
...some sense of security, of common purpose.") It told of Phil's new creed ("We do not question . . .") and of his development into a perfectionist for the U.S. and an apologist for the Sovíet Union. It showed Phil at work in labor unions ("Come early and vote late") and in front organizations that turned and twisted (and took new names) with the whip-cracks of the party line...