Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...hoarse, urgent voice of the "crusade to save our democracy" is finally stilled, by the vote of the people. But other voices, just as urgent, just as frenzied, are still coming in from Britain and a few scattered precincts in Europe, Asia, and Africa. They, too, cry for a crusade to save democracy, and they cannot be hushed by voting, or by turning off the radio. They will keep coming in, these voices of war, keep hammering at the will of a nation that does not want war, that is determined to prevent the spread...
...whole people working through all their elected representatives in the Federal government, to decide what aid should, and should not, be given to Britain. Tuesday's election did not decide that question. It did decide, by the closeness of the vote, that constructive criticism and calm restraint, rather than a hasty and well-greased O.K. to the presidential preferences, is the kind of effectiveness which must be forthcoming from the 77th Congress. Without this attitude, and with a slavish legislative subservience to Unity or the Mandate from the People, America will soon find itself at self...
Submitting their government to a drastic streamlining, Cambridge voters yesterday adopted Plan E, the new proportional representation, city manager charter, by a vote of from three to five thousand, unofficial and incomplete returns indicated at 3 o'clock last night...
More than 20 undergraduates with a number of Law School students served as vote challengers for Tom Eliot '28, Democratic aspirant for the Ninth District's seat in Congress. Other students in both parties helped ferry voters to the polls...
Charging that the New Deal party "by insidious degrees, surreptitiously legislates toward the objective of autocracy," Senator Austin told his G.O.P. audience to vote for Wendell L. Willkie "in the cause of saving the American way of life...