Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Messrs. Warren & Co. followed the scheme laid down by agile-minded Jimmy Byrnes in the Senate: let the opposition talk its head off, then vote the bill through as is. The House version of the Great Debate sounded hotter than the Senate's -chiefly because of the necessary brevity of the speeches-but actually meant no more. That the vote was in the bag was conclusively demonstrated when wily old Speaker William Brockman Bankhead, Hamlet of the House, took the floor for a passionate defense of the measure: near the finish-post, he always cheers the winner...
...expires). Having spent most of the $125,000 so far appropriated to his committee, he announced he would ask for $100,000 at the next regular session of Congress. His awed fellows in the House had talked seriously of letting him have up to $500,000, seemed certain to vote one-fifth as much...
...ships over & above Britain's war needs. Her infant air industry, though encouraged by a $10,000,000 "educational" order from the mother country last year, is by no means equipped to supply such a quantity. Last week the Empire Training Planners waited only the embargo-lifting vote by Congress to place $100,000,000 worth of orders in the U. S., for 600 light trainers, 900 fighters and bombers. Of this cost, Britain will pay half, Canada onequarter, Australia and New Zealand one-eighth each...
...third proposal supposedly was introduced late in the meeting, but no vote was taken. This last measure favored appointment of associate professors in special cases although no permanent vacancies would appear immediately in that department...
...Neutrality Act meant to fix all these questions? Vag had been reading headline after headline about how Congress was thrashing out a new bill that would take care of everything and keep us out of war, and then he read that it was passed by a large vote. Here was what he was looking for. If he could get someone to explain this bill to him, everything would be clear. And so Vag is suspending further thought on the subject of the War until he hears Professor Payson S. Wild speak at 11 o'clock this morning in Harvard...