Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...materials it could try to slip past the British blockade. His dramatization of statutory neutrality's paradoxes was aimed at bringing Congress to the same view. Such standpatters as Ohio's Taft, Maine's White, Georgia's George and Iowa's Gillette (whose adverse vote defeated the Administration neutrality program last July) switched their stand on the export of arms to belligerents. From outright embargo a Senate majority shifted to cash & carry: to let belligerents buy U. S. arms, pay before shipment, and carry them off in foreign bottoms...
...after Prime Minister Hertzog told the House of Assembly that his Government's policy would "continue as if no war were being waged" he found that he had guessed wrong. Out he went, in went General Smuts. For by another unenthusiastic Assembly vote (80-to-66) the Union scrambled on the Empire war-wagon, hellbent for the precipice...
...Would other TIMEreaders vote for this settlement...
With five minutes to go the Exchange governors took a hurried, panicky vote. The acting chairman was in his balcony above the Exchange floor and worried dealers were waiting for the gong to begin trading. (Noble had said it was not to ring until he gave the word.) Four minutes before 10 o'clock the word came: The Exchange had been closed. It did not reopen until November 28 (under restrictions not entirely removed until April 1, 1915). By that time the panic had passed, the New Federal Reserve act was in effect...
...table the great mace, signifying that Parliament was in session, to 10:30 p.m. when members left the building, found crowds singing Rule Britannia outside, it was stamped with the quality of grave decision that has marked the great crises of Parliament. Mr. Churchill did not speak. When the vote came he walked out the door on the Government side of the House, thereby signifying his assent to the granting of war powers to the Government. Implicit in Prime Minister Chamberlain's speech, no less than in the news of war over London, was an acknowledgement that Churchill...