Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since every member of the Forum has a vote in the election of its Board of Directors, the best way for a student in the College to influence the Forum discussions is to become a regular member, Rappaport explained. An estimated 200 memberships will be open to men in the College during the next term, he added...
...winning majority for Communist-Progressive fusion candidate Ademar Barros; in Recife (capital of Pernambuco State), where they gained a huge majority; in Rio de Janeiro, where, in a landslide, they elected a still unreported number of councilmen. The Communists had polled about 16% of the total national vote (at least 800,000 ballots...
...Uruguay's recent elections, the Communist Party doubled its vote and elected (for the first time) a senator...
...fill his column on a dull day, bright Ian Mackay of the London News Chronicle listed ten men whom he thought people might still be talking about 100 years from now.* Last week his paper asked four prominent Britons which of his ten would get their votes. Bernard Shaw would vote only for Composer Jean Sibelius, so Sibelius was the only unanimous immortal. (The other three pickers agreed on both Shaw and Sibelius.) Wrote Shaw: "As for Churchill and the other political gentlemen-it would be rash to include them...
...public interest" for the Central to own a competing road. Bob Young expects to convince the ICC that it is now in the public interest for the C. & O. to control the Central. (Until he does, the ICC has ruled that the Chase Bank will vote his Central stock.) When and if he does get control, he plans to mesh the Central into his other railroads. Next step in Young's master plan is to gain control of the bankrupt Missouri Pacific railroad, now fat with war profits. By virtue of the stock he held in it before...