Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bitter Senate wrangle that had tied up U. S. legislation for the last six months. Using the steamroller tactics that he learned as Speaker of the House, Vice President Garner had with an historic gesture put the modified Court Bill through the U. S. Senate without a dissenting vote...
...held for the last four years by Fusion Mayor LaGuardia (TIME, Aug. 2). Then Leader Dooling died and Tammany Hall perked up. In hope and harmony, expecting that a new Tammany chief would succeed in finding a compromise candidate to replace the two who threatened to split the Democratic vote, Tammany unanimously elected Representative Christopher D. Sullivan, 21 years a Tammany Congressman, to succeed Leader Dooling...
...Amateur Athletic Union, to which he was re-elected last year after he had urged that the U. S. send no athletes to the Olympic Games in Berlin (TIME, Nov. 4, 1935 et seq.). For that stand Mr. Mahoney, if nominated, could count on receiving a large Jewish vote, possibly offsetting a similar vote that fiery little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia expects to receive for his anti-Hitlerism. And Mr. Mahoney could look for support from no less a personage than Franklin Roosevelt. Although President Roosevelt would probably like to see Administration enemies in Tammany thrown out forever, a formal denial...
...financial brunt of improved labor conditions if they had not piled up such huge funded debts while paying juicy dividends to stockholders. Last week for the first time a 70-car bill, introduced by Nevada's McCarran, was passed by the U. S. Senate, without a record vote. The Senate sent it to the House, where a parallel bill was marking time in committee. Observers were uncertain just how favorably the House would view the bill, but were agreed that the 70-car measure was in a better spot than ever before in its legislative history...
...proposed merger of Detroit's Motor Products Corp. with Detroit's body-building Briggs Manufacturing Co. (TIME. Dec. 21): A Vote by the Briggs stock-holders last week to drop the plan...