Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Against. At 3:15, on the stormy morning of April 6, 1917, when the U. S. House of Representatives voted 373-to-50 to declare that a state of war existed with Germany, a memorable incident took place on the floor. As the clerk called the roll after a day of historic debate, the first woman Representative in U. S. history, and then the only woman in Congress, Montana's Jeannette Rankin, sat silent in her seat instead of voting. Before the second roll call, Uncle Joe Cannon went to her side, begged her, as the Representative...
...Adjustment Act of 1938 and the law of the land. This week, after three days of debate divided between assertions by various Senators .that they did not understand what they were voting for and contrary assertions that the bill had to be passed anyway, Majority Leader Barkley managed a roll call, got the bill passed...
...there was something west of the Alleghenies other than a horse trading center on the Mississippi and one or two gold fields in Alaska, Americans carried a jack-knife a lump of wax, and a package of miscellaneous stamps for trading purposes in their pants pocket, bought a Tootsic Roll at the corner store, and went to "The Great Train Robbery...
James Fitzgerald, of the Maintenance Department, pro temporo president of the Association, let it be known at the end of the meeting that in the course of the evening he had accepted 54 new applications for membership, swelling the roll from 926 to 980, or approximately 36 percent of the total number of the service employees in the University...
...last Colonel Donovan called the roll of the defendants. One by one they stood up and faced the jury, an imposing array. In a voice wringing with pathos and indignation, Colonel Donovan demanded: "Are these men who would sell their souls at any price?" The jury contemplated judiciously...