Word: rejecting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herriot left the tribune dozens of Deputies sprang from their seats to wring his hand, clap his broad back?but soon afterward the chamber voted 4O2-to-187 to reject the Herriot motion for payment. Amid pandemonium the Premier shouldered his way out of the Chamber, followed by his Cabinet and by so many Deputies that adjournment was expected and some Deputies went home. Instead debate was resumed in the gray dawn and at 6:03 a. m. (while M. Herriot & Cabinet were at the Elysee presenting their resig nations to President Albert Lebrun) the leaderless Chamber voted again, this...
...neither a Capitalist nor a Socialist," straddled the General. "I cannot be bothered about economic doctrines. My program consists of one single point: the creation of work. . . . Germans of all classes are dominated by only one thought: 'Give us work'. ... In order to fight unemployment I shall not reject promising measures even though they may be not strictly in line with orthodox economic reasoning...
...money and a great deal of money." He goes on to point out the enormous expansion of the "Athletics for All" program, declaring that "the whole scheme of athletics has changed," and that the new expenses "have added many hundred percent to our requirements." He takes special pains to reject the charge that coaches' salaries are too high...
...About the Capitol for a week there was much scurrying and nose-counting. Would the resolution muster the necessary two-thirds vote? Majority Leader Rainey thought so. Others were less certain. Die-hard Drys fumed at the State convention method of ratification, succeeded in inducing the Judiciary Committee to reject (13-to-6) the Garner resolution...
...week came another, a 15? fortnightly on pulp stock named Common Sense, in which Writer Liggett again was the most conspicuous contributor. But Common Sense was distinguished by other characteristics. Its founders and chief editors are 27-year-old Alfred Mitchell Bingham, Yale law graduate, son of Republican Senator-reject Hiram Bingham of Connecticut; Selden Rodman, founder and former editor of The Harkness Hoot, literate, insurgent Yale undergraduate magazine; and Charles C. Nicolet. able newsman who quit the New York World-Telegram to assist them. Deriving its name from Thomas Paine's 1776 pamphlet. Common Sense promised to "stand...