Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These shots might as well have been saved, for the House was assembled this time to pass the bill that the Administration wanted and it voted overwhelmingly to stay in session until it did so. Taking the usual 40 minutes for each roll call, the House went doggedly on into the night before a crowded gallery.* With roll call after roll call, the earmarking amendments were knocked out one by one until, when the final vote was taken, not even the amendment to reduce Administrator Hopkins' salary remained...
...After this tiring session, longest of the present Congress only because of the numerous roll calls, weary Maury Maverick of Texas began agitating for a mechanical vote-recording device in the House...
High Words. Chairman Tom Girdler of Republic recently obtained a vote of confidence from his industry when he was elected head of the Iron & Steel Institute instead of William A. Irvin of U. S. Steel (which signed a contract with S.W.O.C. without a fight). Ever an outspoken man, Tom Girdler expressed himself freely on the situation last week. He insisted that 21,000 of his 50,000 workers were still on the job, that his mills were shipping 8,000 tons of steel daily. Reporters asked about a suit started by Stockholder Robert W. Northrup of Toledo, who complained that...
...Francisco Labor Council clean away from the A. F. of L. Under William Green's orders the Central Labor Councils of Seattle and Portland had expelled the International Longshoremen. A similar order was expected by wire at this San Francisco Council meeting,* and Harry Bridges was out to vote defiance, to order a referendum on joining C. I. 0. He failed for the time being because William Green quietly went to bed without sending the telegram, and Bridges could not muster the three-fourths vote necessary to carry his motion in committee-of- the whole...
Still more revolutionary, on its face, was last week's close vote by the Chamber of Deputies (267-to-265) approving a bill for the complete abolition of tipping throughout France with the exception of casinos, gambling establishments and watering places...