Word: vivas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate the conference report was adopted viva vace in the House by a standing vote. Only one member of the House, Representative McKenzie of Illinois, a bonus advocate, rose in the negative. He objected to the inclusion of female yeomen and their surviving dependents (which included widowers) as beneficiaries...
...Senate: Reaffirmed the principle of Japanese exclusion by 71 to 4 on a roll call supplementary to the viva voce vote that denounced the "Gentlemen's Agreement" with Japan...
...National Palace were lined with dense, silent crowds. There was only the sound of the hoofs and the carriage wheels, as the cavalcade, including the Embassy staff in other carriages, dashed past. The only cheers along the entire line of march was given by a small boy, who yelled: "Viva los Americanos 1 Viva el Senor Warren...
...Republican caucus in the House voted viva voce, with little dissent, that the Ways and Means Committee should report out a tax reduction bill by Feb. 11, giving it precedence over a bonus bill. The caucus also voted down resolutions directing the Committee necessarily to report a bonus bill...
Three days later the Public Consistory was held in the Hall of Benedictions, which is above the façade of St. Peter's basilica. At 10 o'clock in the morning cheers of 'Viva il Papa announced the advent of His Holiness, who was borne into the hall in the sedia gestatoria, which was carried on the shoulders of twelve scarlet-clad sediarit...