Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convention could hardly believe their eyes when they read in the press: "I am writing you as a citizen of the State of New York which you represent in the U. S. Senate to voice my opposition to the Court Bill and to express my hope that you will vote against it. ... Several months ago I wrote to [Franklin Roosevelt] that I believed its enactment would not be in the best interests of the country. In the months that have passed since then my convictions have become strengthened. . . . Whatever immediate gain might be achieved through the proposed change...
...long time Governor Lehman had contemplated speaking his mind about the Court. What prompted him to do so last week was anyone's guess. Senator Wagner was not publicly committed on the Court, but Administration forces counted on the aid of his vote. As good a guess as any was that Senator Wagner, wishing to be relieved of his obligation to the Administration, had quietly prompted the letter to provide himself with an excuse for voting against the bill. An equally good guess was that Herbert Lehman, whose brother Irving sits on New York's highest bench...
...through (TIME, June 14 et seq.) it had not looked difficult. Instead of six new justices at one fell swoop, he had chosen a plan for four new justices, one a year, and had had no difficulty in finding some 54 of the 96 Senators who seemed willing to vote for this modified plan. But during the week of debate, men on whom he had counted had been slipping away. The opposition had been arguing that if it was wrong to pack the Court with six justices, to pack it with one was no better. He needed...
...been suddenly taken from an assembly line by two service men, marched off for his pay and escorted to the gate, with no explanation except his own-that he just joined the U. A. W., refused to join the Brotherhood of Ford Employes or refused to sign a vote of "complete confidence in the policies of Henry Ford...
...questions beat fretfully on the mind of one citizen, Spinster Maria Smith, 74, a retired teacher and the only woman on Saugus' School Board. Last week Miss Smith could stand it no longer. At a School Board meeting she persuaded two of her four male colleagues to vote with her that Teacher Hallin's contract should not be renewed next year...