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Word: votes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Debating Brown University at Providence last night, John A. Moore '38 and Jay Kauffman '38, representing the Debating Council, lost the decision by a two to one vote of the judges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATERS OUTSPOKEN BY BROWN LAST NIGHT | 3/21/1936 | See Source »

Once again the conservative element in Harvard rose to the surface in an overwhelming majority to vote in the CRIMSON-Herald Tribune poll against the bogey of currency inflation $47-68 with 15 others feeling the issue was too obvious to vote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poll Shows Student Voters Oppose Currency Inflation | 3/20/1936 | See Source »

...from Yale, takes the center position on the mythical sextet, while Captains Ken Willis of Princeton, and Paul Guibord of Dartmouth, hold down the flanking wing jobs. Rugged body-checkers, but not rugged enough to hold the Crimson forwards in check, from McGill, Captain Meikeljohn and Weigel win Stubbs' vote for the defense posts. Skillings of Brown, vigilant net minder, completes the team from his position of goalie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE CAPTAIN-ELECT ON JOE STUBBS' ALL-OPPONENT TEAM | 3/17/1936 | See Source »

...seventh of its total population (76,834). Amoskeag closed its mills last September, is now in 776 reorganization, admittedly faces possible liquidation because it cannot compete with low-wage Southern textile mills. No less than 3,669 of Amoskeag's workless workers (a slim majority of those voting) accepted not only the proposed labor peace treaty and the 15% cut, which would reduce minimum wages from $13 to $9.60 per week, but also the principle of determining pay scales on a "competitive cost basis." This would mean Southern wages in Northern New England. Said one worker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Licked | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

...first place, having a substantial amount of high speculation, coupled with a very considerable amount of luck. Anybody who thinks that that thing can be done, and done regularly, is a man, I say, who is playing for a fall." The stockholders apparently agreed, giving the old management a vote of confidence, 211,000 shares to 169,000 shares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Managements Win | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

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