Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stripped his prohibition down to employment of Nazis and Communists. A few Senators ventured that under Senator Reynolds' terms all employers would be suspect, that none could ever be sure of his innocence. Senator Reynolds waved this objection aside, got his unenforceable amendment passed without a recorded vote. The Senate then passed what was left of the La Follette-Thomas Bill, sent the measure on its uncertain way to the House. The La Follette Bill had been smothered in aliens...
...International Ladies' Garment Workers Union convention in Manhattan, Sol Arian Rosenblatt, impartial chairman of the cloak and suit industry, proposed that Communists be deprived of their right to vote, said to cheering delegates: "While we may not deprive these termites in our midst of their citizenship, laws may still be enacted-and properly-to deprive them of the highest exercise of that citizenship, which is the right to vote...
Although there are more Democrats than Republicans (193 to 70, with 274 unattached) they oppose a third term for President Roosevelt by 311 to 136. The vote in 1936 was also opposed to the President...
...Rigamaroie" by Duke Daly is just okeh--band in very heavy and never really gets swinging . . . Tommy Dorsey's "April Plays The Fiddle" gets our vote as the most likely new tune most competently played . . . Benny Goodman's "The Sheik" keeps up the good standard the sextet has set--and shows for the first time what excellent drumming Nick Fatool is capable of . . . "Bluin' the Blues" is another disc by the amazingly little Dixleland gruop Muggay Spanier gathered around him. Besides good solos and the drive that all the records of this series have, the reverse face. "At Sundown...
...runs he will get the Stalinazi vote. . . . Dewey has no program, foreign or domestic, except that little Tommy wants to be President...