Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experiment justifies the unicameralists. Bicameralists claim that one house acts as a check to prevent the other from hasty action. Unicameralists insist that an extra house is no check whatever on anything except efficient legislation. They claim further that one house will reduce legislative buck-passing: what the legislators vote for becomes law, barring veto by the Governor. Although bicameralists argue that one chamber will be easier to corrupt than two, unicameralists expect exactly the opposite because the legislators cannot dodge responsibility, because being relatively few in number their individual acts will be in the limelight...
...matter was suggested at the last meeting before vacation and durisg the holidays George G. Hedblom '37, secretary of the Council, sent a letter to all members summarizing the reasons advanced at this meeting and asking consideration of these before the project was brought up for a final vote last night...
...then prompts her to go to him and explain what she has done. English soldiers surround his house. When he escapes, Riordan has to promise his supporters not to see her again. He keeps the promise until the night in London when he is trying to decide whether to vote for or against a compromise treaty that he knows his party will regard as treachery. After he signs it, he and Helen meet once more-when Riordan, making a triumphant speech, has been shot down by his best friend who thinks he has betrayed Ireland for a pretty face...
...their minds, it behooved the United Kingdom not to be niggardly with the Duke. At 5%, the interest on $1,000,000 is $50,000 per year and the Chancellor of the Exchequer was presently reported to have agreed with King George last week that Parliament be asked to vote $125,000 annually to maintain the Duke and problematic Duchess of Windsor. There was no thought of maintaining them in the style to which Mrs. Simpson has become accustomed in the last few months, though she will doubtless receive for Christmas the $25,000 ermine wrap now being completed...
...Morgan & Co. collateral that had once secured a $39,500,000 loan to the Van Sweringens (TIME, Dec. 14). He went on to tell a lot more: how $274,000 of their purchase price bought 47% control of Alleghany Corp.; how they promptly gave the Vans irrevocable proxy to vote this stock, how they also gave the Vans a ten-year option to buy 8,250 of the 15,000 shares of Midamerica Corp. for $8,250; how they gave the Vans a salary of $100,000 a year, how Mr. Ball bought out most of Mr. Tomlinson...