Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These are some of the things the Associated General Contractors of America were fighting for-not "pork." These are some of the things the "earmarkers" in Congress understood and had courage enough to vote for. These are some of the things your Washington correspondent should know before he makes a rather slurring remark about "pork." W. A. KLINGER...
This week debate on the Robinson Compromise is to commence. Most opponents of the old bill declared themselves opposed to the new bill on principle, but observers agreed that if it could be brought to vote, Joe Robinson had lined up enough votes to pass it. First test of strength is expected when opponents try to refer the new bill to the Judiciary Committee where it would doubtless die. Second test of strength may come several weeks later when, after long but genuine debate, opponents may filibuster to prevent a vote...
Some weeks ago the Archbishop of Canterbury took as Primate of All England a straddled position on the bill, saying he would abstain from voting, and this freed the tongues of such unconventional clerics as the Bishop of Birmingham who last week cried: "I challenge the suggestion that bishops of the Church of England should not vote for the bill because remarriage after divorce is contrary to the traditions of the Church of England. . . . One of the merits of the bill is that it would promote morality"-i.e., tend by making remarriage easier to lessen the temptation to adultery...
...chairwomen of the Committee on Election of the President she may suddenly get something to do before long was suggested last week by Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler who prophesied in London that in 1940 there will be four Presidential candidates deadlocked, possibly throwing the vote for President into the House...
...painstaking research could make it. But whether they will consider its author the best U. S. historical novelist is another matter. Author Roberts' contemporaries, though they may rate him higher than Walter Edmonds (Rome Haul), or Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind), will not give him a majority vote over James Boyd (Drums, Marching On, Long Hunt). Author Roberts' friends complain that he has never been given his due. However, the Chronicles of Arundel (Arundel, Rabble in Arms, The Lively Lady, Captain Caution) have sold more than 100.000 copies in the U. S. alone. Northwest Passage is Book...