Word: voted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fusion Party was born and Fiorello LaGuardia, its candidate for mayor, rode noisily into the third biggest political job in the land. On election night, although he had not yet taken office and had no real authority, he ordered police to send 400 patrol wagons out to bring voting machines to police headquarters-he suspected Tammany henchmen of trying to alter the vote for comptroller. The police obeyed, and the Fusion candidate won. In the next twelve years, the longest period any mayor of New York ever spent in office, life in the great city was seldom dull...
...censored strips, the Senate needed one vote to defeat a bill to put Congress on the air ("and you know what'll happen to us if the American people can actually hear us!"). The Senate's only hope was hideous, snaggle-toothed Senator Phogbound of Dogpatch, "th' most ignorant commoonity in th' country." Phogbound's price was $2,000,000 to build a Phogbound University, "to be known as P.U." He got the appropriation (argued one Senator: "It isn't as though it were my money-it's just taxpayers' money...
...proposal, that according to Allegretti would in effect create a new dramatic group with a new name, was decided upon by unanimous vote of 50 members of the VTW at a meeting Thursday evening...
...Veterans Theater Workshop made the first move to unite the College's two dramatic groups last night. A unanimous vote of 50 members of the VTW assembled at Phillips Brooks House passed a six point merger resolution which will be forwarded to Ted Allegretti '47, president of the Harvard Dramatic Club...
Itallan Communists hope to eject premier do Gasperl's Christian Democratic government today by forcing a no-confidence vote in the constituent assembly...