Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Voted to reconsider the vote by which it passed the Logan-Walter bill empowering Federal courts to set aside rulings and decisions of most Federal quasi-judicial administration agencies on a long list of grounds, thus drastically curbing the executive powers of those agencies. A provocative, extremely controversial bill, it was rolled through the Senate by Senator Logan one day when his Kentucky colleague, Leader Barkley, was napping (TIME, July 31). Logan acceded last week to Barkley's plea for reconsideration, but vowed to bring the bill up again next session...
...Gallup polls revealed that voters in Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois favor a Republican victory in 1940 by 52%-54%. From 54% to 65% of those polled in these States said they would vote against Franklin Roosevelt if he runs...
...Prime Minister had dictatorial ambitions, would find it more diffi. cult from now on. "I frankly say that I despair when I listen to speeches like that to which I've listened this afternoon." Then, despairing Member Cartland trooped off to the smoking room to abstain from voting on a measure of confidence, as did some 40 other Conservatives. The cloakrooms gossiped that party whips handed the names of abstainers to Mr. Chamberlain, were demanding Mr. Cartland's political hamstringing, that Mr. Chamberlain, like Mr. Roosevelt, faced a purge of his own party. The vote...
...Gallup poll, 38% of those asked said they would vote Franklin Roosevelt a third term, 40% said they would vote against him, 22% didn't know, said it depended on the other candidate. Pollster Gallup computed the 22%-balance wheel the 1940 election-at 10,000,000 U. S. voters now undecided...
...Secretary finds the crop exceeding the "norm" by 10%, he must assign marketing quotas (and penalties) to prevent market flooding, call a vote asking for ⅓ approval by farmers thus quotaed. Such umpiring on Wallace's part would put him in the usual umpire's spot. Last year Wallace slid out of calling a vote by estimating consumption and exports high enough to make the supply seem reasonable...