Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Major measures passed by one house and killed by the other last week: Coal Control, Housing, Pure Food & Drugs. Rejected by the House, the Black Lobby Registration bill was not brought to a Senate vote...
This was generally assumed to mean that the dissident Democrats would vote, and perhaps campaign, for Alf M. Landon. But by the time their telegram, in preparation since March 9, had been made public, there were two standards to which Al Smith & Co. could rally...
...same day that the National Assembly met in Manila the datus assembled at Jolo, determined to make Rajamuda Sultan. Again the wilful Princess got the best of Hadji Butu. She informed the visiting princes that according to tradition a Sultan of Sulu could not be chosen except by unanimous vote. Therefore they must wait until every datu from the farthest Moro island had arrived. The followers of Rajamuda called her by the names of she-animals. They declared she planned to make herself Sultana or-almost as unforgivable an insult to a warrior race-get the job for her husband...
...Habits Division would "record the percentage of church members who are strictly temperate and who shun harmful habits"; an unnamed Division might "record the homes where the Christian flag is flying." Finally, "without taking any part in politics, our Congregational-Christian Churches should strive to get out a 100% vote of our church members...
...Bronson Cutting in an airplane crash (TIME, May 13, 1935), the Senate started an investigation of the Bureau of Air Commerce, heard its aids to flight safety called "dangerously inadequate" by many an authority (TIME, Feb. 24 et seg.). The best rebuttal of the Bureau was a vote of confidence from more than 1,000 transport pilots. Last week, a subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee disregarded this defense, held the Bureau negligent in the Cutting crash, recommended a drastic overhaul of Bureau personnel...