Word: nay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mitchell "leaked" the information that Minority Leader Hugh Scott promised to vote for Haynsworth if his vote made the difference; the "leak" was false, designed to force Scott into making it come true. Scott voted nay. Democrat Thomas Dodd was reportedly threatened with indictment over his alleged misuse of campaign funds; rumor had it that he was shown the indictment. But he too voted no. "During my more than seven years in the Senate," said conservative Idaho Republican Len Jordan, "few issues have generated more pressure on my office. Support of the President is urged as if it were...
Seventeen Republican senators broke with the Administration to join 38 Democrats in denying confirmation of the President's nominee. Minority Leader Hugh Scott (R-Penn.) sided with the opposition at the last moment in casting a "nay" vote...
...practical standpoint because the Free Democrats are a schizophrenic party. It was formed in 1948, composed largely of business and professional men who found the C.D.U. too "black" or Catholic and the S.P.D. too "red" or socialistic. At first the F.D.P. was dominated by a right wing of nay-sayers?businessmen who thought there was too much welfare spending, Protestants wary of the C.D.U.'s heavy Catholic influence, nationalists who felt Bonn was too pro-American. Scheel belonged to the Free Democrats' younger left wing, and when he took over 21 months ago, he set about transforming party policy from...
...party with a girl in his car, drove off the road and killed the girl-then crept quietly away from the scene without saying anything to anyone, leaving car and corpse to be discovered the next day without his assistance. The laws covering a situation like this are stringent-nay, merciless. Such a private citizen would pay a very stiff price indeed for his irresponsible behavior. Yet it seems that Edward Kennedy intends to pay no price...
Recently the Civil Aeronautics Board, with its three Democrats voting aye and its two Republicans nay, recommended that Continental get routes from the East Coast through the Southwest to Micronesia, Australia and New Zealand. Last week Nixon again vetoed the award to Continental. He strongly suggested that the South Pacific route will go instead to financially troubled Eastern Air Lines, in which Laurance Rockefeller holds a substantial interest...