Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Jefferson proposed a Constitutional amendment limiting the terms of Justices to six years. His Congressional followers wanted quicker action. Between 1821 and 1825 bills were introduced to curb the Court's power in Constitutional cases by giving the Senate appellate jurisdiction over it, by requiring a vote of five out of seven Justices, by "packing" it with three new Justices...
...primary, the voter must mark eight choices, and in the election, three. The ballots will be invalid if they do not contain the required number of choices. The voting will be held in the Union during luncheon and dinner. Any Freshman who registered at the first of the year, and still is in the College, is eligible to vote...
Several amendments to increase the size of the appropriation were offered in the House. None of them mustered more than 51 votes. The discipline of the majority had little to do with this startling amenability of the House. It was due almost entirely to a paragraph hastily stuck into the Committee report at the last minute by request of President Roosevelt: if necessary the entire $790,000,000 Relief appropriation* would be spent for Flood Relief. No Representative wanted to vote against Flood Relief and, on the flood crests of the Ohio and the Mississippi, Franklin Roosevelt's Relief...
Down sat the Reichstag, then jumped up to vote unanimous extension of the Enabling Act (under which the Realmleader governs by decree without consulting the Reichstag) for another four years. This concluded the German legislative program of this session in just under five minutes, and the Reichstag sat back to-do its only other work: listen to Adolf Hitler...
...otolaryngologist of note and gets many cases referred to him from other physicians. "It is possible that as many as 60% to 70% of the 14,000 doctors in the metropolitan area are engaged in this pernicious practice of splitting fees. Best evidence we have of this is the vote taken last month by the Kings County Medical Society, when 579 out of 770 doctors voted against establishing a law to stop the practice...