Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...side margin, the Council voted to echo the sentiments of the groups at Cornell and Brown and asked that Leagce athletes be allowed to take part in the East-West and North-South football games. The motion originated at Cornell, and its Council sent copies of the resolution to Councils at other Ivy schools, asking them to concur...
...first the wheat support vote was tallied as 46 for flexible supports and 45 against. Then the Senate went through the parliamentary maneuver of 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...
...Vice President Richard Nixon announced the tie, Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore, a proponent of rigid supports, was on his feet contending that the Vice President could not vote because the motion to reconsider had already been tabled. Said Nixon: "If the Senator will read the Constitution he will find that the Vice President has the right to vote when a tie occurs. The chair votes...
Like most U.S. cities, Fort Worth (pop. 434,000) suffers downtown indigestion. Its business district, boxed in by railroads and the Trinity River, is fed by freeways that carry motorists into a honeycomb, where parking space is inadequate and traffic motion slows to a crawl...
Barnes entered the Justice Department amid predictions that many of the 144 antitrust cases inherited from the Truman Administration would be dropped by the Republican Administration. Barnes set that notion to rest. He has disposed of 107 of the inherited cases-but only eleven were dismissed by motion of the Government. Thirty-one of the cases were won by the Government in court, eight were lost, and 57 were settled by consent decrees reached in pretrial negotiations...