Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...project to have 2,000 or more WPA laborers eradicate weeds-notably leafy spurge, creeping jenny-from Minnesota farms. Mr. Christgau announced he would be fired by no one but the President, who had hired him. Forced to choose between Victor Christgau and the Farmer-Labor vote in Minnesota, the President wrote a curt note, demanded Administrator Christgau's resignation, gave no reason, not even leafy spurge or creeping jenny...
...with a bill ready to be presented to both houses, another joint committee agreed on a $3,753,000,000 version of the Lend-Spend Bill, including two items ($212,000,000 for farm benefits. $1,000,000 for Rural Electrification administrative expenses) which the House would have to vote on separately this week. Meanwhile on the floor...
...control of the Democratic party organization in 1940." Along with' Harry Hopkins he damned Tommy Corcoran, Congressman Maury Maverick of Texas, Homer Martin of the C.I.O. and Communist Earl Browder as other non-lowans who had unrighteously butted in by endorsing Mr. Wearin. He referred to his vote against the President's Supreme Court bill as "my crime . . . which has brought down upon me and my candidacy this pack of political wolves from all over the United States...
...province) of Alexandretta*is in the transition stage. It became technically autonomous last year when it was eased from the control of French mandated Syria. This week, the Sanjak's 220,000 inhabitants will go to the polls, in an election conducted by the League of Nations, to vote themselves a legislature. The predominant nationality of the legislature will profoundly influence the Sanjak's destiny. That this destiny was important to its neighbors as well as . the Sanjak, was plain last week. Turkish soldiers were reported concentrating on the northern border and French Foreign Legionnaires enforced martial...
Each year a group of French literary notables and near-notables meets for lunch at the Restaurant Drouant in Paris, and votes for the winner of the Goncourt Prize. They are the members of the Goncourt Academy, and their sole function is that of awarding 5,000 francs to the author of "the year's best work of fiction." There are supposed to be ten members at the luncheon, but the venerable revolutionary writer, Lucien Descaves, refuses to attend meetings with Royalist Leon Daudet, always mails in his vote. After lunch, the Academy's youngest member announces...