Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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National Affairs (TIME, April 15, p. 20) concerning Oldster Hull-"Mr. Hull represents probably the last chance for U. S.citizens who want to vote for a man born in a log cabin...
...been just as dim and uncertain. There have been a few specific actions on the part of the Roosevelt Administration, but no one knows just what basic policy is behind them. If the 1940 campaign doesn't throw light on the situation, it will be just about impossible to vote intelligently...
...foreign situation. As things stand now, the Republicans have nothing to sink their teeth into, not that they would sink them even if they had anything. The problem is certainly important enough to deserve something more than evasions in the election this fall. The people are anxious to vote on our foreign policy, and indeed they must, if our road through World War II is to be anything better than the dark, rutted side-road...
While a large number of chapters did not vote in the controversy, the ballot represents a cross-section of Student Union opinion throughout the country, with only the New England States in agreement with Harvard about the need for condemnation. Student Union leaders at Harvard regret that Harvard finds itself thus in the minority in such a controversy, but caution about "crying out against the Student Union before considering the facts...
...officers of the H.S.U. do not feel that its position in the A.S.U. has been weakened at all, because the vote was democratic on a problem of great interest. In the vote at New York, the H.S.U. more firmly made clear their position on the condemnation referendum...