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Churchill asked for more U.S. and British troops on the continent, formally proposed establishment of "a unified European army subject to proper control and acting in full cooperation with the U.S. and Canada." His motion was carried by 89 votes to 5, with 27 delegates abstaining. (Of the five nay votes, one was cast by a British socialist and four by Irish members, who attacked Mr. Churchill for British "aggression" in Ireland...
Freshmen Note Nay...
Although the measure was first defeated, four members (three Republicans and one Democrat) asked to be allowed to switch their votes. "How much did you get?" someone yelled from the floor. The final count: 176 aye, 174 nay. Bob Kerr whistled off with his legislation, apparently confident that Harry Truman would sign it and make...
Fabre shunned the "solemnity, nay, better, the dryness, of the schools" in his writing, as he did the dreary probing of dead insects in his studies. To the pedants he said: "You rip up the animal and I study it alive . . . You pry into death, I pry into life...
...Gallery Director John Rothen stein in a public test of the Academy's taste in art collecting (TIME, March 14] and announced his decision to retire nex year. But Horse Painter Munnings was still feeling his oats; he made the R.A. dinner an occasion to register his emphatic nay to modern...