Word: voted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hitch-hiker will not be entered on the statute books at this session of Congress. The rider in question, it seems, is attached to the bill to raise subsistence payments for student-veterans. The chairman of the Rules Committee predicts it will not even reach the floor for a vote at this time. Why should it? Have not the concerned congressmen salved their consciences by demanding that assistance go only to the 99.44 per cent pure...
...passed on a roll call vote, 196 to 133, and sent to the Senate a bill by Delegate Joseph R. Farrington (R-Hawaii) to enable the people of Hawaii to form a constitution and state government and to be admitted to the Union on an equal footing with the other 48 states...
...first Hawaiian statehood bill was introduced in Congress in 1920, but never before reached a vote in either the House or Senate...
...should curb such strikes. Union leaders will not be able summarily to call workers out, since the workers must first vote by secret ballot on whether to accept the employer's final offer...
...Wisconsin Republican State Convention in Madison. They were sure, or thought they were sure, that Harold Stassen's workers had thought up the poll, and that it would be a cinch for a Stassen victory. Dewey's cohorts even asked his supporters to boycott the straw vote...