Word: voted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon of the President's outburst, the Senate approved its first peace treaties in more than two decades: with Italy by an overwhelming 79-to-10 majority; with Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary by voice vote...
...According to his estimates, enactment of the tax-cut bill will still leave a surplus of over $5 billion next year-provided that Congress cut the budget by $4½ billion, as pledged by the Senate. So the Senate wouldn't wait for George. On a straight party vote the motion was defeated...
Hope Bill. Nevertheless, the Senate by a voice vote passed a bill proposed by Wyoming's Senator Edward V. Robertson, which directed CCC to go on buying wool through 1948, sell it at cut prices to meet the competition of foreign wool, and take the loss. The Robertson bill authorized $130 million to finance the program...
...start of the strike they had realized that N.F.T.W., unaffiliated with either C.I.O. or A.F.L., was too weak to buck the concerted power of A.T. & T. Now it was so battered it hardly seemed worth reviving. In Manhattan, the executive board of the long lines operators, by unanimous vote, recommended secession from the N.F.T.W. and the organization of a new union within the C.I.O...
...Empower the Attorney General to seek an injunction in a strike affecting the "general welfare"; require a secret vote by the workers on management's last offer before such a strike can be called. (No final, mandatory method of settlement was provided...