Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...constitution, which had been decided upon Tuesday by the Constitution Committee and discussed and approved Thursday by the Organization Committee, was passed by the unanimous vote of the 304 members present. Attendance was considerably below the average owing to the confidence many of the members had in the officers elected by them on January...
...constitution further stipulates that questions involving policy, affiliation or dissolution and strikes be decided by a majority vote of the full membership...
This arithmetic clearly showed the bill's sponsors that, of the 70-odd Senators whose votes had been counted on to pass it, a respectable majority of Democrats were glad for a chance to kill it without openly voting against it. The bill's Republican supporters, who might have been expected to vote for cloture to embarrass the Democrats, decided that since their votes could not swing it they should vote against cloture as a matter of minority principle...
...from Governor Benson requesting that they right an old injustice. "We cannot suffer a precedent to stand, under which, during periods of hysteria, honorable teachers are humiliated and dismissed in disgrace because their views happen not to coincide with the views of those in power." With only one dissenting vote-that of Fred B. Snyder, president of the board in 1917 and now-the board rescinded the 1917 dismissal, voted Professor Schaper $5,000 as salary for the year 1917-18. Because, at 68, Dr. Schaper is too old to return to his former job, the board gave...
There are two ways to become an Immortal: 1) election by a 75% vote of the members of the Baseball Writers Association, who have been given the task of choosing players whose careers ended some time between 1900 and the year of election; 2) selection by a committee of oldsters, who choose 19th Century heroes. In this year's ballot, Grover Cleveland Alexander was the only player who received enough votes to qualify. Of 262 votes he received...