Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate: ¶ Killed the President's proposal to enlarge the Supreme Court by returning it to committee, by vote of 70 to 20 (see p. 11 ). ¶ Overrode the President's veto of a bill 1) to continue for one year the reduced 3-2% interest rate on loans made to farmers by Federal land banks, and 2) to postpone the restoration to original levels of interest on farm mortgages held by the Government. With every Republican except Senator Vandenberg, and even such economizers as Senator Glass voting for the bill, the President's veto, already overidden...
...Vote. Senator Adams of Colorado walked forward, tossed the first slip of white cardboard into Carter Glass's hat. Andrews was second, then Ashurst, then Bailey...
...Barkley," shouted Judge Russell, as he drew out the first slip. "Harrison," barked Judge McKellar on the second. "Harrison."' "Harrison." "Harrison." "Harrison." "Barkley." "Barkley." "Harrison." "Barkley." Seesaw. Seesaw. When the vote reached 37-37 there was a pause and a dead silence. The final ballot looked "big as a quilt" to Candidate Barkley, who bit off his pipestem...
...called at the White House and saw Franklin Roosevelt. Later at the Capitol he gave audience to a delegation of Senators, most of them freshmen counted on to vote for the Court Bill, who felt that unless the President would make a further compromise, they would vote to send it back to the committee. The Vice President told them what he meant to do. That evening, he took Senators Harrison, Barkley and Pittman and went back to talk to "The Boss." He even got in touch with Senator Wagner, about to write a stinging reply to Governor Lehman...
...They consequently gave much aid and comfort in Flanders to the invading German Army. For such acts of "treachery" many of King Albert's Flemish subjects were condemned to varying prison terms and many, when they got out of jail, remained deprived of their civil rights, unable to vote in Belgian elections. To end this state of affairs and let bygones be bygones, is the purpose of the Amnesty Law (TIME, June 14), but ever since being enacted it has been strenuously backfiring...