Word: voted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...often as not lunched on a sandwich and piece of pie in the House cloakroom, and popped back into bed at 9:30 to refresh himself for another day. Unlike Taft, he commanded an overwhelming majority. One henchman chortled: "With our majority we actually told fellows they could vote as seemed best for their district situation...
...vote by which the Senate passed the labor bill last week was a testimonial to Taft's conduct of that debate. Only three Republicans voted against it: Oregon's Wayne Morse, Nevada's George Malone, North Dakota's William Langer. Senator Ives, who had forced Taft into a liberalization of a number of measures, went along in the end. So did Joe Ball, who had fought for a sterner bill but was not too displeased over the outcome. The vote, if it held, would be enough to override a presidential veto...
...Truman Doctrine-if only because it bore the name of the Democrat's 1948 presidential candidate. Last week the origin of the doctrine, the aid-to-Greece-and-Turkey bill, arrived on the floor of the House. The G.O.P. made it plain that every man would vote for himself. The result: four days of shrill and contentious debate which reminded observers of nothing so much as the lurid neutrality fight...
...bill passed by a vote of 287 to 107. But the close Republican vote-127 to 93-made it plain that congressional support of every phase of the Administration's foreign policy was by no means on a bipartisan basis...
...screams frightfully when she sees an eagle but she is only afraid for her children, men are afraid for themselves, that is the real difference between men and women . . . Yes some day some day the women will vote and by that time ... it will do them no good because having the vote they will become like men, they will be afraid, having the vote will make them afraid...