Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cannot go to war except by vote of Congress. It cannot make treaties without the consent of the Senate. These are the ultimate decisions of foreign policy, well known to the public. Also it is the duty of the President and his Secretary of State to look after the interests of the U. S. in international affairs. Except for the ultimate decisions, theirs is the whole of foreign policy...
...Congressman who can afford to play statesman. Towheaded, brainy, Democratic Mr. Walter is a director of the Easton National Bank, a successful lawyer who gets along equally well with Bethlehem Steel Corp. and with Bethlehem workers, who abound in his bailiwick. By conviction ("I believe in it") and vote (for TVA, Wagner Act, etc.) he is a confirmed New Dealer...
Last week vast, various General Motors had an election. In 59 of its plants, in eleven States, 128,957 workers voted on whether or not they should have a union (and which union) to bargain for them with their bosses. Six years ago, before the Wagner Act and NLRB, such an election would not have been possible in the U. S. Three years ago, before sitdowns and the slow, arduous lesson in industrial relations which followed, such an election could not have been held in General Motors. Last week, on corporation property, corporation time and with the corporation blessing...
...leader named Birger Furugärd and a slogan of "Sweden, Awake!" Later it merged with the larger National Socialist Workers Party founded in 1933 by Sven Olaf Lindholm, who likes to be called Sweden's Hitler. In the 1936 elections the combined parties polled 1.6% of the vote for the Riksdag. They have never won a Riksdag seat...
Chairman of the committee which is now circulating the petition for a vote on the plan next fall is Mrs. Amelia Fisk, who is heading a large group of workers combing the city for signatures. Last night she issued a call for student help in persuading people to sign the petition...