Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rose Viscount Cecil, No. 1 exponent in Britain of the League of Nations and stager of the 11,000,000-vote Peace Ballot (TIME, Sept. 2, 1935). "This is a perfectly impossible combination of idealism!" Idealist Cecil warmly told Idealist Lothian. "The feeling in America against such a proposal would be overwhelming...
...Harvard students (that rich man's sons' college), have by a vote of 1228 to 49 voted against a ruling prohibiting entertaining of female visitors singly in the House rooms...
...third time in as many years the Legislative Committee on Education yesterday reported against the Teacher's Oath Law, this time favoring repeal by a vote of nine to five. This decision represents an advance over last year's count, where repeal triumphed by a single vote, and the likeli-hood of the House following the Committee's lead is far greater than before...
Thirty-three degrees in the College and ninety-eight more in the University were granted after Mid-Years by the President and Fellows, it was announced Saturday. The Corporation voted them on February 15, and the vote was confirmed by the Board of Overseers at a meeting held March...
...ample interval of deliberation" as urged by Theodore Roosevelt, and requires passage by both houses during two successive sessions of the Legislature (it meets in odd-numbered years), and then submission to popular referendum, Nevada's lottery project was not imminent last week. By 1939, when Nevadans may vote on it, present public opinion may have changed...