Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democrats who felt as Oklahoma's Nichols did about losing their patronage. Defying the President, who had asked for the bill as first step in his great program of reorganization (TIME, Jan. 25), the rebellious bloc engineered amendments which emasculated it. As though to symbolize the anonymous standing votes by which this deed was accomplished, lights suddenly winked out, plunging the House into darkness. When light was restored and Administration leaders had forced a roll-call vote, the timid rebels shrank from recording their insubordination, killed the amendments by 216-to-164, sent the President's bill intact...
...still idle, losing $7,000,000 a day - but five days after the eastern strike collapsed Longshoreman Harry Bridges, leader of the western strike, announced : "There is a growing sentiment in the rank and file for settlement and nothing can change it now." A peace vote in the unions was set for this week. No empty settlement will this be for the strikers, however. Tentative agreements gave the unions their demands for 1) control of the hiring halls which pick men for jobs when employers call for seamen, 2) an eight-hour day (or less) with increased pay instead...
With the results of the vote of more than 40,000 Pacific Coast maritime workers announced yesterday and showing huge majorities in every port in favor of accepting the new wage and hour agreements, the costly, 97 day old shipping strike is at last over. It has been estimated that the strike cost over $7,000,000 a day, in losses to both employers and employees, and the loss to the general public, not only of the Coast cities, but all over the country, is inestimable...
...over to confer with the politicians, the "despised civilians." Not because he was opposed to War Minister Terauchi did Navy Minister Nagano refuse to back him. His reason, and he was probably right, was that he thought that he and Terauchi would more easily get the present Diet to vote three billion yen ($850,000,000) for the Army & Navy than perform the same feat with a Diet elected by more or less angry Japanese voters who knew the Army had forced dissolution. In Tokyo, however, it is almost impossible for a Cabinet to exist if either or both Army...
...great Chicagoland company reaching to the Mississippi River -a Commonwealth Edison Co. with $746,000,000 resources. Two court suits seeking injunctions against the management were disposed of before the meeting and the plan James Simpson and his engineers had been working on for two years was put to vote, overwhelmingly approved. Involved in the plan besides Commonwealth Edison and Public Service are Western United Gas & Electric Co., serving prosperous but not swank west suburban communities, and Illinois Northern Utilities Co., having customers in most of the territory west to the Mississippi River. All common stock in Western United...