Word: voted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Income tax reduction by $4,000,000,000 was approved by the Senate 60 to 32, two votes short of the strength required to override the promised vote of President Truman...
...decided to see what the union thought, discovered that many another carpenter was wondering the same thing. The 940 union carpenters in northwestern Washington's Skagit, Whatcom and San Juan counties took a vote. Last week the returns were in: 60% had decided to refuse the raise and bet their 13? an hour on the future...
...clear. Up till now he had been able to sit quietly in the wings at Albany, while congressional rivals and free-speaking Harold Stassen performed before a critical audience. But now it was time to start moving. Dewey needed a blitz win on an early ballot. On every successive vote the chances of a deadlock with someone like Bob Taft would increase the danger of a dark horse...
Last week Generalissimo Francisco Franco ordered the Spanish people to vote on his new law of succession. A yes vote would not only make Franco "Chief of State" for life in a kingless "kingdom," but would give him the legal right to name the king or regent who would succeed him. A no vote simply meant that Franco would continue as dictator of Spain, without even a shadowy commitment to restore the monarchy...
This time the monarchists were wary, and advised their followers to drop blanks in the ballot boxes. Few dared to abstain from voting, for failure to vote could be punished by fines, reduced rations or loss of jobs...