Word: aye
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...school, and after one or two tries passed the bar. In the House, he took Republican Whip Joe Martin's advice, kept his nose clean and worked hard. Though he counted himself a conservative, a protectionist and an isolationist, he hewed to no strict party line, voted "aye" on a number of F.D.R.'s New Deal programs. He voted against both Lend-Lease and extending the draft, but he changed his mind in September 1941, when he exhorted the Congress to show a ''unity of purpose'' behind the President. To disavow or oppose F.D.R...
...anybody who will not rock the boat, either from fear of being noticed or hope of future pelf. But by the time Mandel is through with him, he has become a somewhat more complex conformist. At the outset Marks is a reservist with a wry eye for the shorebound "aye, aye" jargon of the peacetime Navy and a fondness for clean shirts and amenable girls. When a Navy pilot at Sims Field (near Jacksonville) commits suicide, Marks is detailed to make a routine investigation...
...Democrat Robert Kerr to table the medicare amendment worked out by the Administration and five liberal Republicans. All 100 Senators were present - a rarity. Despite meticulous headcounting, the outcome hinged on a few unpredictable votes. The count began with Vermont Republican George Aiken's crisp anti-Administration "aye"; it had seesawed to a 13-13 tie by the time the clerk reached Douglas of Illinois. Two-thirds of the way down the list the Administration led, 37 to 31, but still ahead was the "murderers' row" of conservatives at the end of the alphabet...
Then West Virginia Democrat Jennings Randolph, an oldtime New Deal liberal who rarely bucks a Democratic President, cast a resonant and decisive "aye." With that the Administration knew it had almost certainly lost, and Arizona Democrat Carl Hayden, who had reluctantly promised to support the Administration only if his vote was needed to produce a saving tie, also voted against medicare. The final vote was 52 to 48-with 21 Democrats joining 31 Republicans (all except Case, Cooper, Javits, Keating and Kuchel) to defy the President...
...Aye-that's me," said John...