Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vote of League powers early in December Russia...
...social program ardently wooed the Negro vote, arguing that the New Deal's attention to Negro relief needs had actually operated to shunt Negroes out of normal productive enterprise into a status of a separate relief economy. A section on Housing demanded the stimulation of private enterprise to build 4,656,000 needed housing units...
Against old (62) Tom Collier were two other negligible independents and Mr.Crump's brassy, psalm-singing Police Commissioner Clifford Davis. The vote: Tom Collier, 520; Clifford Davis, 30,300.Declared beaten but unbowed Tom Collier on election night : "If the people of Mem phis want to remain cowed and contented, that's their business - but I won't. I'll be in there fighting again...
...with adroit capacity for capitalizing such moods of urgency began to say that men could not eat liberty or wear constitutions or be sheltered by bills of rights, that action and immediate results were what really mattered. The pressures of need led us to think, to act, and to vote in forgetfulness of the fact that the hasty actions of political expediency, on the hunt for quick remedies, can wreck a nation if its remedies ignore the inviolable principles that underlie the stability and productive efficiency of life and enterprise...
Premier Daladier, secure in the unanimous vote of confidence which the Chamber gave him fortnight ago, stayed home nursing a cold. Onetime Premier Blum was among the first to concede that control of the press in wartime is necessary not only from the military standpoint but even for political reasons. Thus the Communist dailies of France have been entirely suppressed with the entire approval of Socialist Blum. All speakers made clear they were not attacking the Government on this issue, only making suggestions...