Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what most observers believe to be the most significant act of legislation this year, virtual repeal of the Teachers' Oath Bill was enacted yesterday when, by the narrow vote of 111-102, the Massachusetts House of Representatives accepted the report of the Committee on Education which recommended that the raw be erased from the ledgers...
...honest and efficient the political backing of the incumbents must not be based on petty graft and favoritism in the back wards. If honest municipal administration does as much for the poor in housing and recreation and health and crime prevention, the poor are not tempted to give their vote to the man who brings a sack of coal in winter and a peddling license in summer. A possible alternative way to knock out the machines is to adopt the city-manager system which, well-organized, allows few chances for corruption. Perhaps Curley's revival may be a fortunate event...
Daughaday was elected with a seven vote lead over his nearest competitor, Edward T. Ladd '38. He was Chairman this year of the Committee On Transition, assistant chairman of the Social Service Committee, and a member of the Personnel Committee this fall...
...House of Commons, after hearing how upsurging new jobs are going to be provided in the Depressed Areas by Rearmament, rushed through vote after vote last week the enabling bill under which His Majesty's Government are going to borrow ?400,000,000 ($2,000,000,000) for Rearmament. In rapid succession Crown ministers representing the fighting services asked such sums as $410,000,000 for the Army, $525,000,000 for the Navy and spoke casually of setting up "14 new munitions factories." Meanwhile the first long-expected "returning prosperity strike" in the Rearmament industry had suddenly immobilized...
...motion to censure the Baldwin Cabinet on the grounds that their Rearmament program is: 1) dealing a blow to the League of Nations; 2) raising the cost of living in the United Kingdom, 3) preparing the way for an eventual new Depression more disastrous than the last. By a vote of 241 to 117 this Labor motion was defeated. Next the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin put Rearmament to the test, triumphed overwhelmingly as the Government bill passed without even the formality of a division (nose-counting). This formality Major Attlee could have forced if Labor were sincere in wanting...