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Word: voting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...when challenged as to his right to vote, one of this group starts any trouble, a telephone call will soon bring a carload of huskies to restore order...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 40 HARVARD SIX FOOTERS ARE READY TO QUELL POLL RIOTS | 11/5/1940 | See Source »

Last minute polls and other surveys gave President Roosevelt a slight hump on the popular vote. They agreed generally, too, that Wendell L. Willkie must win the electorial votes of the "big four" states New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Ohio--if he is to triumph...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 11/5/1940 | See Source »

...letter by Messrs. Willcox, Morse and Stein in last Friday's Crimson contains a serious misstatement when it says, "neither the Democratic, Republican nor Socialist parties offer an opportunity to register a vote for peace." As far as the Socialist Party is concerned this misstatement is so ludicrous that were it not so oft repeated by supporters of the Communist candidates, apparently acting on the theory that reiteration carries conviction irrespective of the truth, we would not burden Crimson readers with a statement of the position of Norman Thomas, Maynard Krueger and the party they represent. We would suppose that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 11/5/1940 | See Source »

Plan E provides for a nine man council selected on a city wide basis by the single transferable vote system of proportional representation. The council selects a city manager responsible to it and chooses one of its members as mayer, who presides at council meetings and is ceremonial head of the government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Quacks, Parlor Pinks" For Plan E, Lyons Says; Dean Landis Finds Cambridge Near-Bankrupt | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

...want a united America you'll vote against this plan for proportional representation," Lynch said in his debate with Landis. "It's a foreign importation. It hasn't worked out well anywhere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Quacks, Parlor Pinks" For Plan E, Lyons Says; Dean Landis Finds Cambridge Near-Bankrupt | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

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