Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fall that he would retire at the end of the single consecutive six-year term allowed him by the Argentine Constitution. Not so surprised were politicos when Justo hand-picked his successor, Dr. Roberto M. Ortiz, his Finance Minister. In Argentine politics the Government nominee usually wins. When the votes were counted five months ago Justo's man had done even better. He had rolled up the largest popular vote in the country's history...
...four years now is has been assumed that the members of the class are incompetent to nominate as well as elect their own officers. A veritable hierarchy has appeared. You either vote "yes" or you don't vote at all. The nominating committee makes a pretty pretense of pacifying all parties by picking a few stuffed shirts from the ranks of what they consider the representative elements in the school; a few club men, a few commuters; and a few athletes are scattered indiscriminately among the nominations...
This is our last opportunity to express our will as a class. We the undersigned are tired of being asked to vote time after time since our Freshman Union Committee days for the same conglomeration of quasi-representative names. Now as Seniors we are asked to swallow the final cup of hemlock, rendering us dead to our rights and privileges, the great mass of us merely so many votes to be mechanically considered by that mastermind, the nominating committee, the answer to the dreams of a power-crazed Stalin...
...clever parliamentary maneuver that the group in favor of the oath managed to stop the measure dead in its tracks. After a rising vote in which members of the upper house voted 17-17, President Wragg broke the deadlock by speaking up for repeal. Immediately Senator Halvey of Rowley who had abstained from voting on the first and second readings recorded himself as against the bill...
...vote favoring repeal in the measure's second reading on Tuesday was considered a strong indication that the legislation be placed on Governor Hurley's desk. His veto message last year and his remarks at the opening of the present session of the General Court assert his firm support of the oath...