Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...social program ardently wooed the Negro vote, arguing that the New Deal's attention to Negro relief needs had actually operated to shunt Negroes out of normal productive enterprise into a status of a separate relief economy. A section on Housing demanded the stimulation of private enterprise to build 4,656,000 needed housing units...
Against old (62) Tom Collier were two other negligible independents and Mr.Crump's brassy, psalm-singing Police Commissioner Clifford Davis. The vote: Tom Collier, 520; Clifford Davis, 30,300.Declared beaten but unbowed Tom Collier on election night : "If the people of Mem phis want to remain cowed and contented, that's their business - but I won't. I'll be in there fighting again...
Members of the Harvard Student Union will vote in secret ballot on an amendment to the A. S. U. platform, it was announced yesterday by Alan Gottlieb '41, President of the Harvard Chapter. The amendment would condemn Russia for the invasion of Finland...
...amendment, rejected at the national convention by a vote of 322-49, was referred to the decision of the entire Student Union body in a referendum called by the National Executive Committee. Ballots for the vote were received yesterday by Gottlieb and will be returned for count to the National Office in New York within a month...
...since the Yardlings are in such a dither, it might help them to have a working blueprint that at least may bring some improvement. First, the Union Committee's experience and knowledge might be put to use by having them nominate men for specific jobs. Then the class can vote on these men, not for vague prominence as figureheads, but for the downright drudgery of running the Smoker and Jubilee. Both these steps would help get the best men for the jobs, and would let the class run its own affairs. But nobody ought to worry about this business...