Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...dramatic roll-call vote the Harvard Student Union last night endorsed material aid to England by a 74 to 71 margin, and adjourned in a maze of parliamentary red-tape...
Disaffiliation with the national organization requires a two-thirds vote of the membership, and although Gottlieb may get his policy approved, there is no likelihood of his getting a two-thirds vote to disaffiliate. This may leave the Student Union in the paradoxical spot of being affiliated with a national organization with which it is in fundamental disagreement...
...record of Mr. Thomas permits of not the least doubt of his sincerity and enthusiasm in the cause of liberalism. This year the Socialist party offers the voter's only chance to protest conscription, and to vote for an extension of democracy at home as the best defense of America. It is a protest party, hopeful not of victory, but of rolling up enough votes to bring pressure on the major parties...
Casting a "protest" vote does not appeal to many persons. It is mainly for those who consider a certain abstract principle more important than actual effectiveness. For them, Mr. Thomas is the ideal man; he has often shunned some of labor's most effective partisans because of disagreement over abstract questions...
...year party member and a member of the State Executive Committee of the Socialist Party, Billings feels very optimistic about the vote this fall, predicting that "Socialists will probably get the largest vote in the history of the party, as voting Socialist is the only way for an American citizen to register a protest against conscription and intervention...