Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their seats. Vice President Garner had stepped aside to let Senator Pittman preside. Three empty black leather chairs stood in a row below the dais on the Republican side of the Chamber; Representative Hobbs and his fellow-prosecutors felt it more fitting to be absent when the Senate vote was taken. Three more black leather chairs stood on the Democratic side. The centre one was occupied by small, aging Judge Ritter. his arms folded, his face pale and expressionless. At his right sat his broad-beamed Chief Counsel, Frank P. Walsh, to hire whom, according to Florida newshawks...
Saved by one vote, Judge Ritter did not move a muscle as the clerk began to read aloud the second count of the indictment charging that Judge Ritter connived to have a receivership suit brought for his own profit. Again the roll was called: 52 "guilty," 32 "not guilty...
Meantime newshawks were keeping political score in the gallery: 30 Senators, nearly all regular Democrats, were voting "guilty" on every count; 26 Senators, the majority of them regular Republicans, were voting "not guilty" on every count. Mrs. Caraway was voting "guilty" with the Democratic regulars, Mrs. Long "not guilty," with the Republicans. The fate of Judge Ritter rested with the 28 Senators who were splitting their votes on the different counts. With the sixth count, another income tax charge, more of this group swung to vote for conviction...
Harvard debaters won the Triangular debate last night by a score of two to one against Princeton and Yale. Harvard defeated Princeton here by a unanimous vote of the judges and defeated Yale at New Haven two to one. Yale defeated Princeton at Princeton by unanimous vote...
...bill puts the question of their future squarely up to the local politicians. If their bravado proves to be nothing more than that, then the wiser leaders will regain control, provided with an effective radical-silencer. But if these Porto Rican lago's persuade the populace to vote "yes" on the independence referendum, they will have only themselves to blame for the disastrous results that are bound to follow. Porto Rico now enjoys the best possible trade relations with America: in four years, when complete independence would be obtained, she would be allowed no more privileges than any other country...