Word: voted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frustration and exasperation, Minnesota's Walter Judd cried: "We are sitting here doing nothing and letting the world go to hell." But most Congressmen, sobered by the testimony, were no longer eager to cast a vote for the revision plan. Marshall and Austin, though deploring the tactics, were far from decrying the spirit. They asked for a resolution supporting the U.S.'s patient efforts to shore up the structure of U.N. "from within" through the Little Assembly, and restriction of the veto in peaceful settlements...
...Senate completed the victory of the Air Force last week. By an overwhelming 74-to-2 vote, it passed a $3,198,000,000 appropriation to get the 70-group Air Force program started. Coupled with the House's recent 343-to-3 endorsement of a similar bill, the Senate's action was conclusive proof that Congress considered air power the nation's first line of defense...
...strident step forward was repeal of the tax on oleomargarine (TIME, May 10). By a vote of 47 to 30, the Senate overruled Arthur Vandenberg's decision to send the House repeal bill to the anti-oleo Agriculture and Forestry Committee, routed it instead to the pro-oleo Finance Committee. The vote virtually assured repeal in the Senate and the end of the butter lobby's 62-year reign...
...Ohio's ex-Governor Frank Lausche (rhymes with how-she), the Democrats' best vote-getter in the Midwest, returned to the wars. Opposed by the state's Dem ocratic machine (including Harry Truman's new Commerce Secretary, Charles Sawyer), he won his gubernatorial primary handily. He will oppose Republican Governor Thomas J. Herbert, who beat him by a whisker...
...Alabama's Democratic primary voters unseated two Congressmen-Pete Jarman and Carter Manasco-and landed a one-two punch to Harry Truman's chin. The front-runners in the race for Alabama's eleven presidential electors were all pledged to vote against Harry Truman or any civil-rights nominee. Of the leaders in the scramble for Alabama's 26 Democratic convention seats, virtually all were opposed to Truman's renomination, 13 were pledged to bolt the convention if a civil-rights plank were adopted...