Word: voted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...encourage a new flood of oratory by undue questioning. But when Donnell finally subsided, with the unchallenged comment that it must be a "great relief to members of the Senate," the parliamentary dillydallying began. It was not until week's end that the Senate came to a vote...
...Chamber. When Jacques Duclos explained the Political Bureau's decision he got the most lukewarm cheering from the Communist benches that the chubby maestro has ever had to endure. Marty looked as though it killed him to clap his hands together twice, and after the confidence vote (411-to-0) I heard him say to Thorez in the corridor: 'Is that how we defend the interests of the working class...
...Throughout the debate Thorez sat, scarlet-faced and obviously uncomfortable, staring at his desk. After he had cast his vote for the Government his hand was wrung lengthily, emotionally even, by Ramadier. Thorez hung his head like a small boy when Rene Pleven, lanky, bespectacled Radical spokesman, asked quietly: 'Are there two consciences for the Communist Party? Is there one conscience for Communist Ministers, and another conscience for the rest of the Communist Party...
...only major opposition was expected to come from the five Arab states in the U. N. Faris EI Khoury, Syrian delegate to the Security Council and leading Arab spokesman here, said the Arab countries would vote against a special session unless the British request was accompanied by a recommendation for a solution of the Palestine problem
...stamped final approval on the bill by a 46 to 34 vote after a stormy session in which Tobey shouted that his own party, the Republicans, must shoulder the "blame" for failure to extend controls for a full year...