Word: voted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...send the disputed measure to conference in the regular way, with the House conferees in formal disagreement with the Senate but free to bargain to the best of their ability. In effect, this resolution was aimed at the Senate amendment. In adopting the resolution the House predicted its final vote on the Senate's $24,000,000 amendment?against...
...reorganization of the Brooks House Association which began with making smaller and more effective the Cabinet and centering the executive power of Brooks House within the organization itself by depriving the University of its former privilege to participate in Brooks House elections. The decision was the result of a vote of the Cabinet at its monthly meeting last Tuesday and will go into effect immediately...
...Progressives strove to have the vote taken in open session. They had no chance. Executive session it was, and in executive session, Mr. West was confirmed...
...publication of the vote revealed the interesting fact that 22 Democrats voted for Mr. West while only 15 voted against. Had all Democrats voted against Mr. West, they could thus have vexed and balked President Coolidge. They did not do so because 1) It was too late to bother about Coolidge vexations, and 2) Mr. West had convinced them of his suitability...
...vote also revealed ? which was no great secret ? that the squad of anti-power-trust Republicans is eleven: Elaine, Borah, Brookhart, Couzens, Frazier, Johnson, MacMaster, Norbeck, Norris, Nye, Pine. From one of these it was thought that Paul Mallon had secured his scoop. Such a one as the boyish Nye who is regular at election time and irregular in between would be glad to have the country know that he, in contradistinction to the majority, is nobly bottling "the interests." But any of the Progressives might have done it and Pressman Mallon is specially good-friends with Progressives...