Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vote so far: For, 49: Against...
...Representatives are now in their 40's and 50's and beyond the limits for military service. Logically we American Youths who are between the ages of 21 and 30 would make up the volume of American soldiers, and should, therefore, have the right to assist in voting ourselves into a war. Why can't we be represented in Washington by a separate "Youth Congress," one representative from each state with a maximum age limit of 30? Is it democratic to let the age 40 and 50 vote the death sentence...
Such solid old-line Democrats as Carter Glass and Harry Byrd of Virginia stood together with Young Turks Minton of Indiana, Schwellenbach of Washington; the Old South's Cotton Ed Smith of South Carolina was ready to vote with the New South's Pepper of Florida. For the first time in many moons and many matters, Mississippi's Harrison and Bilbo, Utah's King and Thomas, were together. For in Washington this week were no pettifogging politicos seeking sewer projects. Every man was a Statesman...
...dangers" of the Social Security's so-called $47,000,000,000 old-age reserve fund of the future. Similarly he won smashing victories over Franklin Roosevelt when he needled the Florida Ship Canal and Maine's Passamaquoddy power project so effectively that Democrats joined him to vote them both down...
...probably mean victory for the Isolationists, the U. S. public will stand for no filibuster; 3) he must join with his fellow-Republicans in holding down Bob La Follette, who is bent on stealing the show for the Progressives. Well he knew, too, that the Administration's 49-vote majority was a paper majority, that paper majorities are like paper profits unless quickly taken...