Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cotton quota has already been set at 26,300,000 acres, to produce a 10,125,000 bale crop (8,621,000 under last year's). Dark tobacco quotas will be 145,000,000 Ibs., flue-cured tobacco 705,000,000. Fines for over-productive farmers, whether they voted for or against quotas, will be two cents a pound for cotton, 50% of the market price for tobacco. Said Administrator H. R. Tolley, "We consider the vote an overwhelming endorsement of the new farm program...
...blow to Beck's prestige was tempered by the size of Langlie's vote and the knowledge that A. F. of L. leaders would do their best to defeat Meyers. Last week, in the runoff election, 37-year-old Lawyer Langlie's votes jumped to 78,997. "Call me Vic" Meyers, carrying on a serious campaign, was able to poll 48,114 or 518 more than the sum of his own and Mayor Dore's primary votes, but that was not enough...
...frontier was swept away, thus abolishing customs duties; German-Austrians learned the economy of their country had been meshed with the Göring Four-Year Plan (TIME, Nov. 2, 1936); and April 10 was set as the date on which "the German men and women of Austria" will vote in a "free and secret plebiscite" whether they approve what Adolf Hitler has done by then...
...usual for a Cabinet to "fall," overthrown by an adverse vote, but it can also "jump"-that is, simply resign. This rare but not unprecedented maneuver Premier Camille Chautemps executed in Paris last week, taking full advantage of his great personal triumph in having just put through both Chamber and Senate by huge majorities his Modern Labor Charter (TIME, March...
There was a general gasp of surprise as Camille Chautemps then, refusing debate and not asking a vote, simply nodded to the members of his Cabinet, who jumped from their seats, followed him out of the Chamber, and few minutes later joined him in presenting their resignations to President Lebrun...