Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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High among the Ds were the House Rules Committeemen (including Democrats Cox of Georgia, Clark of North Carolina, Smith of Virginia; Republicans Mapes of Michigan, McLean of New Jersey) who long delayed a vote on Wages-&-Hours. Others of the 39 House...
That stirred up the Dutch blood of Senator Van Nuys, a small-town lawyer who spent 32 years climbing from precinct worker to Senator. He stethoscoped Indiana and concluded that his anti-Court-bill vote was one of the most popular he ever cast. He began to talk of running as an independent if denied the Democratic nomination. "I think I know the rank and file of the party. I have been with President Roosevelt 95% of the time. ... I propose that the people of Indiana shall have a chance to express themselves...
...knew how its appointees contribute 2% of their State salaries to the machine's treasury, how scandalous certain of its dealings -in liquor licenses, for example-could be made to look. Republicans began to say nice things about him: as an "independent" he would certainly split the Democratic vote, help a Republican...
...house recommended by the school-board president. His wife's baby was delivered by a doctor on the school board. Warned by a friend that he was trading at the wrong grocery, he changed stores. Nevertheless, he lost his job. after he had made himself ineligible to vote by moving from one ward to another on the eve of an election, against the advice of a school-board member...
...United's stockholders were likely to vote was immediately indicated by the stock market. Same day the letter went out, United Corp. common was the most active security on the Big Board, rose from $3.12 to $3.50 on a turnover of 44,000 shares, while the preferred rose from $30.75 to $32.25 on a turnover of 5,600 shares...