Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brought up first on the unanimous consent calendar, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Bill needed a two-thirds vote after Democrat Kent Keller of Illinois objected to postponing consideration, called for suspension of the rules. Opposition to the plan then became explicit...
...make special arrangements, tolerantly giving up their rooms to prostitutes when necessary, the ex-Premier went into battle controlling a majority of the delegates. He offered a motion advocating a united front against aggressor nations abroad, continuation of the Popular Front, with Communists included, at home. The vote: 5,490 against...
Internal harmony restored, Labor then jumped with ineffectual vigor on Prime Minister Chamberlain, damned his delay in concluding a defensive pact with Russia, denounced his policy in Palestine by a vote of 890-to-2. But it accepted conscription lying down. And although it began preparations for a general election, probably this autumn, observers noted with Sir Stafford gone it had no popular leader likely to lead Labor to a national victory, that no Labor Party Congress since its earliest days had attracted so little attention, that even a small conference of rebellious Conservatives like Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden...
Shrewdly sidestepping such grave internal problems as the peasants' demands for partitioning the big estates, what to do with Hungary's Jews, Premier Count Paul Teleki last week asked Hungarians to vote confidence in his foreign policy of close but wary association with the Axis by keeping his Government Party in power. In Hungary's first secret ballot since 1920 they did. Result: for the Government Party 180 out of 260 seats. But this Hungarian rhapsody ended when returns showed that the five Hungarian Nazi parties had increased their seats from 14 to 39 and their total...
...give us orders we'll vote for him again...