Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Russell explained that the amendment was not intended to bait industry. Businessmen were cooperating in national defense, he said, but there might be some subcontractors who made essential defense items who were not. But the debate grew hot. Ohio's Senator Taft declared: "I shall refuse to vote for any measure to draft men, and I do not propose to vote for any measure to draft property. ... In drafting men, they may be classified according to rule, and they may be drawn according to lot. However, in this case the matter is entirely within the discretion...
...Hall located at 40 Quincy Street has been occupied by 40 Freshmen for the past two years and by vote of the Corporation was named Walker House this spring. It is famed as the home of such Harvard greats as President Walker, President Baxter of Williams and Professor Kirsopp Lake...
Radcliffe, Harvard's little sister, is the traditional butt of Harvard humor. The typical Radcliffeite is pictured as a bony female wearing flat-heeled shoes, and horn-rimmed glasses, and carrying half a dozen textbooks; usually her slip is showing. But the vote of the class of 1940 seemed to belie that conception--or else last year's Seniors liked them that way. Radcliffe is conveniently close, the girls are generally more intelligent than at other colleges, and they don't mind riding subways or sitting in the balcony. At the beginning of the year the Radcliffe Houses hold...
Congress debated conscription last week. During the speeches, citizens in the crowded galleries often saw less than half of their Senators and Representatives on the floor. So many Democrats stayed away from the House that Administration captains had to postpone a crucial vote on the bill empowering the President to mobilize the National Guard, finally got it passed (342-to-33). But habitues of the Senate galleries seldom failed to see a worn, bent figure in white, listening intently, some times speaking, constantly interjecting query and quibble. He was Nebraska's 79-year-old George W. Norris...
...Guild agreed to a separate election for 850 employes in commercial depart ments of the Times. That would leave 617 workers altogether in the editorial department. Bill Laurence fears that if clerks and copy boys are allowed to vote with newsmen, they will choose the Guild as their bargaining agent against the wishes of at least 80% of the news staff. He believes that no more than 25% of the Guild's 17,210 members are actual newspapermen; that the 75,000 U. S. news paper workers (editorial and commercial) are overwhelmingly opposed to the Guild's organization...