Word: voted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...early season football games next fall will be started a half hour earlier than was the case this year, it was announced yesterday by the H. A. A. following a vote of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard College...
...permit the Sejm to reconvene. At last Pilsudski's gruff consent was given. Deputies scurried up to Warsaw. Then last week, half an hour before Speaker Daszynski's gavel was due to fall, a rumor spread that the National Democratic and Socialist Deputies were going to rush through a vote of no-confidence in the Government...
...bring his famed "Liberty law" to the official attention of the German Reichstag (TIME, Oct. 28) bristling Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, fiery nationalist, "Hearst of Germany," needed to obtain the votes of 10% of the German electorate. Last week, aided by a heavy vote from truculent Pomeranians and East Prussians, he squeaked through with...
...Women she declared would make ideal pollwatchers and ballot-counters "because they would not let themselves be corrupted or suborned, nor can they hope to win high Government posts by selling themselves vilely." In a word Dona Sofia asked the President to decree 100% feminine custody of the presidential vote. He promised to ponder her suggestion, gallantly bowed her out; soon the Ministry of Interior announced: "Federal troops will be assigned to prevent disorder or fraud during the voting...
Moderator McAfee was not exploding a bombshell. Last May the annual General Assembly at St. Paul, Minn, voted to send to some 300 Presbyteries three "overtures" to be voted upon. If the majority vote in the majority of the Presbyteries was in favor, changes suggested by the overtures would become effective in May 1930. Said the overtures: Shall women be ordained as lay evangelists? elders? ministers...