Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue at stake was which way Pennsylvania, apparently the pivotal delegation, should vote for the next Democratic Leader of the House of Representatives. Since the Majority Leader always can claim to be the next Speaker, and since Speaker William Bankhead is not a well man, the Leadership of the next Congress is doubly important to the man who gets it and to the Administration...
...years ago. when Speaker Henry Rainey died, Vice President Garner quietly pushed Mr. Rayburn forward for the job of Speaker. He lost because Senator Guffey, then as now big cheese in Pennsylvania, canvassed his House delegation, announced they would vote solidly for Joe Byrns. Thereafter Mr. Rayburn withdrew from the contest. This year matters are different. Sam Rayburn is better known, partly because he is head of the Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee (he has no other committee assignments) and as such fathered the utility holding company (death sentence) bill. Doing so won him the approval of Franklin Roosevelt...
...hundred ninety-one undergraduates have received athletic insignia by a vote of the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports it was announced yesterday. Of this number, the straight Major 'H' was awarded to 23 varsity football players and Manager Walter H. Page, 2nd '37 and to Hayden Channing, Jr. '37, captain of the varsity cross country team. Three Major 'H' in Minor Colors were awarded in soccer to Daniel E. Burbank, Jr. '37, Robert C. Holcombe '37, and Captain James A. E. Wood '37. Three of the football men received the Major 'H' for the third time, George Ford...
...voluminous on the subject, and can talk profoundly on its thousand-and-one ramifications. The purpose of his organization is to induce people to sign cards, saying, "I am in accord with the aim of the Federation to out-law war by popular vote." To date, they have obtained 600,000 signatures in every country in the world. In countries like our own, they have less difficulty, because of the popular feeling for peace. In countries like Italy, Germany, Poland, and Russia, however, they meet with more determined opposition, accounted for by their collective warlike attitude...
...amendments to J. Stalin's Constitution-not that they expected these to be adopted or even debated but just for the fun of boasting afterward back home that they had filed an average of 17 amendment's each. There was no doubt that the Congress would vote whatever the Dictator wanted in its entirety this week and J. Stalin, ignoring the 43,000 amendments, told the Congress crisply: "In ten days we shall have a new Constitution...