Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...distinct coolness among Republican state leaders. To be sure, they came to visit him at Owosso, where he spent four days with his mother, Mrs. Annie Dewey (whom he calls "Mater"). With Arthur Vandenberg on their minds, Michigan Republicans were noncommittal about even a second-or third-ballot vote for Dewey. But Dewey was confident they would come...
...prohibitionists already had their own man. The Prohibition Party's presidential nominee was Dr. Claude A. Watson, 62, onetime minor league ballplayer, now a Free Methodist preacher in Los Angeles. This was pink-cheeked Dr. Watson's second try; he polled 75,000 votes in 1944. He opened his 1948 campaign last week with a barnstorming tour of dry Kansas, flying in his own plane. He hoped to do better this time. Said he: "If the church people vote like they pray and if the prohibitionists stand fast . . . I will be the next President...
...Council chairman, Poland's Oscar Lange, called for the vote that really counted-the noes on the U.S. motion as a whole. Quickly he shot up his own hand. Then Russia's sullen Andrei Gromyko raised his. Thus, for the eleventh time in the short history of the United Nations, Russia had used the veto. The Balkan peace watch was dead...
Such swift action was something new in U.N. Newest and strangest was the line-up on the vote. The U.S. and Russia voted "yes" together. Britain, France and Belgium abstained...
...Senator Abe Murdock, a down-the-line New Dealer to whom three G.O.P. committeemen strongly objected. The other was New York's J. Copeland Gray, a liberal Republican and up-the-ladder veteran of the Wage Stabilization Board and the Regional War Labor Board. The committee vote on him: 9-to-3. Gray's proudest boast: in 17 years as labor expert for Houdaille-Hershey's Buffalo subsidiaries (shock absorbers and firearms), no time was ever lost through labor disputes...