Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first session of Russia's newly elected parliament, the Supreme Soviet (TIME, Jan. 24), closed last week in Moscow. During its closing days, spectators continued to mingle and vote with the elected deputies. One day platoons of soldiers and sailors (not armed) enlivened parliamentary procedure by marching in, filling all the aisles. Their spokesman assured the Supreme Soviet: "This is the most democratic parliament in the world...
...happens, the National Peasant Party, Premier Goga's doughtiest foe, has spent 20 years teaching Rumanian peasants, who are mostly illiterate, to recognize and vote the ticket headed on the ballot by the Peasant Party symbol, a circle. Last week, on the advice of ingenious Premier Goga, King Carol decreed this circle and all other Rumanian party symbols abolished. He announced that the first party to apply would be given a ballot symbol of one black dot, the next two dots, and so on up to 28 dots (there are 28 Rumanian parties). It was next discovered that...
...odds in favor of the White-Wagner-Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill decreased steadily last week, for time works with a filibuster. One serious blow was the refusal of Republican Leader Charles McNary, a master of minority strategy, to vote for night sessions or cloture so long as he could hamstring the Barkley leadership by refusing to do so. Another blow was the warning by oldtime Liberal George Norris that a prolonged, bitter filibuster in the face of important legislation might be too high a price even for an anti-lynching bill. Said he: "Perhaps this is not the time...
...Room) of the Great Kremlin Palace. The seats for the spectators were separated only by a small barrier from those of Russia's elected representatives. So it was hard to tell who was who and spectators solemnly raised their hands at the same time as deputies, whenever a vote was taken. This would have led to confusion, except that every vote was a 100% unanimous endorsement by all deputies & spectators of whatever the Government proposed...
...items as the Russian Fairy Tales, Slovenly Peter. For delinquents "above average intelligence" in the "Grades 9-12" group is included James Hilton's Goodbye, Mr. Chips. Typical title for little delinquents: Winnie-the-Pooh; for slightly older ones: Eleanor Roosevelt's When You Grow Up to Vote...