Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confirming the vote (a motion to reconsider and table), which Administration forces won handily. At that point, however, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson rose to say that his tally of the vote on the original motion did not agree with the official figure. In the midst of the roll call, Johnson had persuaded Rhode Island's Democratic Senator Theodore Green to switch his vote from flexible to rigid. In the confusion the tally clerk counted Green on both sides. With Green properly recorded, the vote...
...some changes. He snorted with disgust upon entering his dark, cavernous office, modeled after the hall of an English manor house, where Albert B. Fall once sat as Harding's Interior Secretary and where Harold Ickes ruled before working himself a new building. "You don't call this an office," snapped Floete. "I'm going down the hall a few doors, where there is a human-sized office...
...night Kefauver was scheduled to speak at St. Mary's College in Winona, 120 miles southeast of Minneapolis. His chartered plane was grounded by bad weather. After long and heated debate among Kefauver's advisers (during which one of them bitterly suggested that they "call Winona and tell 'em to go home and vote for Stevenson"), it was decided that Estes should drive. He was game, but the roads were icy. Two hours later, just as he should have been handclasping his way into the St. Mary's auditorium, Kefauver was barely halfway there. At last...
...delegates heard Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler and Pennsylvania's Republican Representative Hugh Scott. Scott outlined the progress of the U.S. Negro under the Eisenhower Administration, e.g., completion of desegregation in the armed forces, desegregated dinners at the White House. Answering Adlai Stevenson's call for desegregation by 1963, Scott concluded: "The time to meet injustice is not [in] 1963, because it happens to be the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. The time to meet injustice...
...Call for Action. Gaitskell might have broken Conservative unity if he had been willing to echo the demands of 30 or 35 back bench Tory rebels of the "Suez group," who smolder at the British retreat from the Suez, and accuse Eden of weakly appeasing the Arabs. Sitting behind Eden, they too wanted a new Middle Eastern approach: toughness and force. But Gaitskell refused to "go their way," and closed with a rousing peroration-"There is a desperate need at the moment for a lead which will both rally democratic forces and restore unity ... I hope the government will give...