Word: counts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the 74 had taken their seats.* Senator Barkley, as Acting Leader, rapped lor order. Turning the gavel over to Senator Pittman, President Pro-temp of the Senate, Candidate Barkley took his seat with the others. The chairman appointed McKellar (a Barkley man) and Russell (for Harrison) to count the ballots. Senator Black, secretary of the majority conference, prepared to write them down. Carter Glass, oldest man in the Senate, offered his battered Panama for a ballot box. prompting New Jersey's Smarty Smathers, three months a Senator, to crack about secret ballots in a glass...
...candidates." Seventy-four Senators snickered at this bit of superfluity. Chairman Pittman sang, "Without objection it is so ordered,'' and the voters resumed their trips to the table, one by one, until Burt Wheeler gingerly cast the last ballot. Senator Pittman banged his gavel: "The judges will count the votes." There were 75. "The judges will read the ballots...
...Grand Hotel de l'Europe. So were Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden, Actor Sacha Guitry. the Bishop of Winchester, Tenor Richard Tauber. rich Mrs. Harry Guggenheim of New York. Elsa Maxwell, funster for the unimaginative rich, was expected back again. In the swank Cafe Bazar and Count Alfred Salm's tearoom across the way, chatter about the Duke & Duchess of Windsor's impending arrival all but submerged the news that King Carol of Rumania, King Leopold III of Belgium, Prince Umberto of Italy, the young Franklin Roosevelts were coming...
Next morning the nation heard news that made the Springfield Republican a prophet of doom and caused Artist Woolf to fly his drawing to New York for immediate publication in the Times. The leader of the Administration forces in the Senate and the man who refused to count unhatched chickens, Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas, was found dead (see p. 10). The penciled signature on Artist Woolf's drawing was one of the last copies of that loyal autograph and, at the very hour in the night when the Springfield Republican was coming off the presses...
...number of eggs laid the previous year; 2) the wetness or dryness of the weather. Moderate rain during the spring months keeps down grasshoppers because in moist weather a parasitic fungus flourishes which preys on the larvae. Scientists estimate the number of eggs by digging up the ground, counting the eggs in small sample areas. After they brought in a heavy egg count last spring, followed by continued dry weather, they predicted the worst...