Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vote of 74 to 1 passed a bill extending the life of RFC to June 30, 1939; sent it to the House...
...eyes, doubtless, the vote of the Union Committee to give up mid-year reviews was wise. Last year the Freshmen found them largely useless, and a few instructors who took great pains to prepare for the reviews faced non-existent audiences. Several courses in Physics and other fields having joined the group which give summaries in class, and some professors like Holcombe in Government 1 deciding that a three hour session is futile, the proponents of the scheme had to talk in an atmosphere of failure. Only extremely hard work by members of last year's Committee made the reviews...
...past half-hour, in the presence of the House and Senate assembled, Vice President Garner had been opening, Senators George and Austin. Representatives Tinkham and Fletcher counting, the vote of the Electoral College. State by State the landslide vote piled up. At the end the Vice President did not bother to announce the awesome total...
That statement, uttered early in the proceedings by Chairman Harold M. Wilkie. seemed to express the basic point of Governor Philip La Follette of Wisconsin, whose board of regents met last week in Madison to vote finally on the dismissal of Glenn Frank as president of the University of Wisconsin. All but four of the 15 regents had been appointed by Governor La Follette. When nine of them voted for an open hearing on Chairman Wilkie's charges against him, filed at last month's regents' meeting (TIME, Dec. 28), Dr. Frank knew he had only...
Such speed on the part of the A. B. A. on a matter less than a week old was no less surprising than the vote by 150 lawyers-delegates deciding that some of the things they were doing were unconstitutional by A. B. A. laws. Brought to a showdown on a resolution urging the Federal Government to extend civil service to all employes except top Government officials, the House of Delegates voted itself out of order, threw out all other proposals not concerned with law and legal orders. Next day, however, delegates approved a civil service resolution relating to Federal...