Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arguing for the white primary before the U.S. circuit court of appeals in Baltimore, South Carolina Democrats insisted that their party was like a country club: it could exclude Republicans, women, lawyers, or bowlegged men if it chose. A Negro "has no more right to vote in the Democratic primaries in South Carolina than to vote in the election of officers . . . for the Colonial Dames of America...
...election by two to one. In Congress, he plumped for an import tax on copper, fought against Boulder Dam because he thought it discriminated against Arizona water interests. He won his reputation as a determined foe of Government spending. A nominal Democrat, he often hurdled party lines to vote with the G.O.P., tangled violently with tough old Speaker Jack Garner...
...largest vote ever cast on any issue in the history of the Annex, 802 undergraduates -- approximately 83 percent of the student body -- marked affirmative ballots. Thirty-six voters dissented; 126 'Cliffedwellers failed to vote in the two-day balloting...
...student bodies of Harvard and Radcliffe have voted to affiliate with the National Student Association in the hope, rather than in the conviction, that the organization will develop into a vital and beneficial force for students. The vote was not a vote of confidence. It was a highly deserved sanction for NSA to go ahead and do something...
...This vote indicates a hasty scampering to the right and a desperate attempt to maintain the type of government deemed necessary for U. S. aid. French politicians have never agreed on anything for very long, and whether they can too the United States' line long enough to secure France for the Marshall plan is the question of the hour...