Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hopkins in my judgment did not volunteer that statement in order to influence a vote in Iowa, but simply made it in reply to an inquiry from a newspaper man. The Senate will realize how difficult sometimes it is to avoid answering a newspaper inquiry...
...adroit, finagling Tommy Corcoran of the President's political staff. His pressagent called in able Correspondent Richard L. Wilson of the potent Des Moines Register and Tribune. Wilson wrote out what Mr. Hopkins said to him and handed it back for approval: "If I were still voting in Iowa,I would vote for Wearin on his record." Mr. Hopkins, not quite sure if he had ever voted in his native Iowa, struck out "still," gave Wilson his release...
...When Lilienthal was reappointed Dr. Arthur did not resign, as threatened, but tried to get President Roosevelt to approve the principle that the Board could act only after a unanimous vote. Failing in that, he tried to tie the Board's hands by going away for a long rest...
...Each U. S. Territory has a Delegate to Congress (or Resident Commissioner in Washington), who sits in the House of Representatives, has the right to speak, not vote, and acts in practice as a sort of official lobbyist...
Occasion for Mr. Green's pleasure was the failure of C. I. O. co-Founder & Secretary Charles P. Howard to be re-elected president of the potent International Typographical Union. The printers by a 3-2 vote replaced C. I. O. man Howard by their Vice President Claude M. Baker, of San Francisco. Their act as labor men knew was, however, more a repudiation of Mr. Howard than of C. I. O. For in his twelve years as head of I. T. U., his two-and-a-half years of personal affiliation with C. I. O., aggressive President Howard...