Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President wants the Congress to address itself first to farm legislation," drawled Senator Connally, who likes to talk even more than most. "The Senator from New York wants to go off on a vote-catching expedition in Harlem. The Senator from New York has his mind and eye on the future." New York's lumbering senior Senator Royal Copeland then rose to explain unnecessarily, as he was to do many times as the day progressed, that Tom Connally's scorn was directed not at him but at his colleague in name only, junior Senator Wagner...
...weekend adjournment any hope that the Wagnerites could break through the Southern barrage to bring their bill to a vote had grown dim indeed. It disappeared altogether as the Senate reconvened this week when, with the filibuster going into its sixth successful day, "Cotton Ed" Smith abruptly closed it to his colleagues' intense and unanimous relief by producing his farm bill...
...Senate last week, 18 of the 20 members of the Senate Finance Committee went on record for modifying the undistributed profits tax. Strongest opposition to the tax came from the Committee's Chairman Pat Harrison who, having failed by one vote to beat Kentucky's Alben Barkley for the Senate Democratic Leadership last summer, no longer feels any inhibitions about speaking out on fiscal policies which may or may not have Presidential favor. Said he: "The main thing I have in mind is employment, and if private industry is given some encouragement it will help. Today...
...hours per week, and when layoffs began the shop was apparently ripe for revolt. One strike early in the week was quickly discontinued, but the suspension of four of its leaders immediately brought on another outbreak. In Lansing, Fisher Body workers reached the point of taking a strike vote but direct pressure from U. A. W. President Homer Martin helped kill the move. Adding to the workers' discontent have been the grinding negotiations for a new G. M. contract. After a five-month wrangle at the council table G. M. and the union negotiators finally agreed...
Awards totaling $34,300 have been made to 131 Massachusetts upperclassmen by vote of the Corporation, it was announced yesterday by the University. The students receiving scholarships are as follows...