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Word: votes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sixth place in the Junior vote will reduce the number of 1940 members appointed by the new board from five to four, the present chairman, Richard H. Sullivan '39, said last night. Although the Constitution does not provide for the emergency, the Council last night used "executive discretion which we hope will be acceptable to the Class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Healey, Marvin Top Student Council Election Slate | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...years old before its Representatives dared to vote themselves money for clerk hire. Not until 1898 did they allow their office helpers a full year's pay ($1,200). Now each may have two secretaries on the Government payroll at no more than $3,900 for one, $5,000 for the pair. Each Senator is entitled to five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Scared Cats | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...decision was reached after it was discovered that only two men, Torbie Macdonald and Scotty Campbell, would be able to attend. Before the Heptagonal Meet last Saturday, Coach Mikkola asked for a vote of those of the squad who would like to compete. He was answered by eight men, of whom only four had sufficiently good times to qualify, and pressure of exams forced Captain Bob Haydock and Don Donahue to retire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD OUT OF I.C.4A TRACK FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 1877 | 5/24/1939 | See Source »

...does not glory in his full name, Fontaine Maury-Maverick, but in his War record, his intellectual honesty and in the hell he raised for four years in Washington as first Representative from Texas' new 20th District. It was his boast that he never cast a sectional vote, that he out-dealt the New Dealers, that he typified the rising political leadership of the new industrial South, Democratic, of course, but independent as an unbranded yearling. He voted for the anti-lynching bill and against Franklin Roosevelt's Big Navy,† questioned the wisdom of WPA, orated against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Unbrcmded Bullfrog | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution. . . ." Passed in 1870 as a weapon against the KuKluxKlan, Section 51 has since been used occasionally in cases involving intimidation of witnesses or voters, such as last year's Kansas City vote-fraud cases (TIME, April 11, 1938). Last week it was used successfully for the first time in its 69 years of existence to protect the freedom of the press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: In Mobile | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

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