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Word: voting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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Chief reason for the secession was the realization that it was absolutely impossible to keep the Union together. Although this was known at the meeting on October 8th, the vote solidified sentiment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 52 TO FOLLOW GOTTLIEB IN H.S.U. SPLIT | 10/17/1940 | See Source »

...make Harvard's undergraduates as dry as its lecture halls," they confidently predicted. "No third drink--vote for Babson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUNNIES BOOST BABSON, FIGHT SINNIN' AT COCKTAIL PARTIES | 10/16/1940 | See Source »

...walls of factories blossomed with masses of dirty-faced workers, like tenement flowerpots, who cheered and waved, laughing, sometimes jeering. Children, white, black, yellow, many times screamed derision; but Willkie's evangelical earnestness won their parents' respectful attention. Even in polyglot Homestead, where the police motorcycles bore "Vote Roosevelt" signs, Willkie was heard fairly & fully. For five hours the candidate crisscrossed the river, returned to Pittsburgh for his set speech at Forbes Field on labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Terribly Late | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

...rubber and the sale to the natives of manufactured goods made in France, more than three billion francs went to France from Indo-China every year. The native standard of living remained one of the lowest in the world. The harvest of this policy was hate. A recent straw vote taken in a native high school revealed that, of 300 boys, only one preferred French to Japanese rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FAR EAST: Harvest of Hate | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

...representative body of the nation, had to accept the trade. Mr. Roosevelt seemed to ignore the Neutrality Law which definitely states that the United States is a neutral nation and will not give any military aid to a warring country. Congress passed this act and Congress had the vote of the people behind it. The boats were only the first step towards a great movement of a steady stream of ships, aircraft and possibly men to the English. One man has given this military aid to England and no one has made the effort to check...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOT WITH A BANG BUT A WHIMPER | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

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