Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vote of confidence which the Committee proceeded to give its chairman could be interpreted in either or both of two ways: 1) as a vote of confidence in John Hamilton; 2) as proof that no one else wanted his job. That job is not merely to reorganize a shattered Party. It is also, as Treasurer Charles B. ("Barney") Goodspeed explained last week, to wipe out a campaign deficit of $901,501.61, owing mostly for billboard and radio advertising. Chairman Hamilton, reported Treasurer Goodspeed. spent $67,000 less than the budgeted $6,300,000. But the Committee's receipts, like...
...Senator George Norris of Nebraska, this right would be taken from them and given to the people. But long ago the same unwritten Constitution of the U. S. which denies any President the right to more than eight years in office, deprived the electors of their power to vote anything save the popular conviction of their respective states, reduced them to the status of political stooges...
...risk that an officer under fire is afterward either shot or plastered with medals. As Mr. Baldwin had just laid before the House the irrevocable abdication of Edward VIII, "signed by his own hand," the Prime Minister was not exactly under fire. The House was offered a choice of voting either for or against His Majesty's "irrevocable decision." It was ratified by a vote of 403-to-5 in the Commons and passed without dissent in the Lords. Dominion Parliaments hastened to concur by rubber-stamp landslides, all excepting the Irish Free State (see p. 18). Finally Parliament...
...last week "the person of the King in the Irish Free State" (as in any other Dominion) was the Governor General appointed by the King. Irishmen thought the British crisis (see p. 14) an opportunity too good to lose. In Dublin the Dail by a vote of 81-to-5 frostily "approved" the fact that there is a new King, said nothing about "allegiance" and passed an amendment 79-to-55 that the office of Governor General of the Irish Free State is abolished...
...this makes their country a republic and it certainly kills "the person of the King" in the Free State, but that person has been a legal fiction. Teacherish President Eamon de Valera said dryly that his Free State has not withdrawn from the "British Commonwealth of Nations." The Dail vote he explained "leaves the King only a vague title in the international affairs of the Irish Free State. He has no longer any internal powers...