Word: voted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaker Joe Martin thought things were shaping up nicely. He had just seen his brood of House Republicans drop their squabbles, and obediently line up to be counted for a rock-solid party vote. The issue was the constitutional amendment to limit a President to two terms. Not a Republican wavered as Democratic whip John McCormack wailed: "It will make the Constitution rigid. It ties the hands of future generations." Of the 238 Republicans present, 238 voted right. With 47 Democrats joining them, the vote was 15 more than needed for a two-thirds majority. Joe was pleased...
...Commission finally decided to ask the U.N. Security Council back in New York for guidance. Meanwhile, the Greek Government executed the six. It then complained formally that the Commission had interfered in Greek domestic affairs by requesting a reprieve for the first five. The Security Council, by unanimous vote (with Russia and Poland abstaining), instructed the Commission henceforth to keep hands off death sentences, except in special cases where the importance of condemned men to the Commission's work could be clearly shown...
...scene was Warsaw's renovated, horseshoe-shaped Parliament Hall. One by ore, the members walked to a wicker basket in front of the speaker's dais to vote in Poland's first postwar presidential election. Everyone knew that the winner would be Boleslaw Bierut, who for 24 months had been the Communist-stooge Provisional President...
Midway in the voting, rolypoly Speaker Wladislaw Kowalski rang for order. Gravely he announced: "Some of you have been putting ballots into the basket openly. This is a secret vote. You must fold your ballots, so your choice cannot be seen...
...ballot, but most of the members of this Parliament had been chosen in a terror-ridden election in which most voters had cast open ballots in plain view of the Government's poll watchers (TIME, Jan. 27). On the other hand, democratic practice usually calls for an open vote by elected representatives, so that their constituents can check up on them. Poland's rulers have just reversed Western democratic procedure...