Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oswaldo Aranha, who ordinarily resides in Washington, D. C. and who as the Ambassador of Brazil is a constant professional acquaintance of the Secretary of State, sprang to his feet. His unanswerable argument was that if at a Conference one delegate can ask everyone to drop everything and vote his measure, then so can every other delegate. To meet this unpleasant fact of life, conferences many years ago invented committees to steer them. It was thus the fate of the Hull Pillars this week to be steered back to the steering committee. The Secretary of State, who is never downhearted...
...Cabinet. On the contrary, the Prime Minister has strongly confirmed it by implication in the House of Commons. Why is it 'impossible' that the desire of the King, who does not ask that Mrs. Simpson become queen but only his morganatic wife, should be granted by parliamentary vote or at least submitted to such a vote?'' Fleet Street: This week London presses roar with the flat prediction of Viscount Rothermere that morganatic marriage of the Sovereign will be made possible by the Mother of Parliaments and if necessary also by the daughter Parliaments of the Dominions...
...Chicago, at their annual winter meeting, Big Ten officials heard a proposal, submitted by a young Wisconsin history professor named Robert L. Reynolds, to diminish undercover professionalism by awarding able footballers "athletic scholarships" of $400 a year. The proposal was rejected by a vote...
...played at George Washington University, he was not named on any major All-America team. Last summer, he worked as an instructor at Washington, D. C. playgrounds. When newspaper balloting for last September's All-Star college team began, Leemans' pupils organized a campaign that made his vote enormous. Selected for the team, he was outstanding in both All-Star games...
...from a J. P. Morgan & Co. banking group, setting up a concern called Midamerica Corp. as a new super-holding company for the Van Sweringens. What the Brothers Van Sweringen got was a 10-year option on a controlling block of Midamerica common stock, together with the right to vote it in the meantime...