Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Senator Russell explained that the amendment was not intended to bait industry. Businessmen were cooperating in national defense, he said, but there might be some subcontractors who made essential defense items who were not. But the debate grew hot. Ohio's Senator Taft declared: "I shall refuse to vote for any measure to draft men, and I do not propose to vote for any measure to draft property. ... In drafting men, they may be classified according to rule, and they may be drawn according to lot. However, in this case the matter is entirely within the discretion...
...given before an appreciative nation." Said Candidate Willkie: "Well, there can't be anything more wrong than 100% wrong." Said the New York Times with unusual asperity: "A line of attack which does no credit to him or his party. ... If this says anything, it says that a vote for Mr. Willkie is a vote for Hitler. That is an unjust charge, because the record shows that Mr. Willkie has been just as straightforward as Mr. Roosevelt in his condemnation of Hitler. ... It is an irresponsible charge. . . . Hitler may well believe that he will find tougher opposition...
...said it was a rebuke to Franklin Roosevelt. Other Republicans found in it a happy portent for Republicanism in general, tried to get Hiram Johnson to endorse Wendell Willkie. Hiram Johnson himself said: "Of course, if they hadn't agreed with my views, they wouldn't have voted for me." All explainers ignored the fact that when a State once acquires a solid admiration for the gnarled-hickory character of an elder statesman it often continues to vote for him regardless of issues -as Idaho did for Borah, as Virginia has done for Glass...
...Hall located at 40 Quincy Street has been occupied by 40 Freshmen for the past two years and by vote of the Corporation was named Walker House this spring. It is famed as the home of such Harvard greats as President Walker, President Baxter of Williams and Professor Kirsopp Lake...
Radcliffe, Harvard's little sister, is the traditional butt of Harvard humor. The typical Radcliffeite is pictured as a bony female wearing flat-heeled shoes, and horn-rimmed glasses, and carrying half a dozen textbooks; usually her slip is showing. But the vote of the class of 1940 seemed to belie that conception--or else last year's Seniors liked them that way. Radcliffe is conveniently close, the girls are generally more intelligent than at other colleges, and they don't mind riding subways or sitting in the balcony. At the beginning of the year the Radcliffe Houses hold...