Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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South Carolina's Byrnes, whose resistance to President Roosevelt's Court Plan was largely passive, did vote to recommit it to the Judiciary Committee, July...
...Paul Reveres" from Chicago, New England and New York journeyed to Washington to demonstrate against Reorganization in person. By this time, the principal excuse for detecting real danger in the bill-the provision whereby the President's changes in agencies could be nullified only by a two-thirds vote-had been counteracted, and passage of several other amendments had made the bill even more innocuous than it had been in the first place. By this time also, after four days of bitter debate, the House was almost ready to put the matter to a vote...
...House, its 90 Republicans were naturally lined up solidly against the plan. So was a strong Democratic anti-Roosevelt bloc led by New York's Tammanyite John O'Connor, Chairman of the Rules Committee which stopped the President's Wages-&-Hours Bill last summer. Nonetheless, voting on amendments earlier in the week had suggested that the coalition was sufficiently outnumbered to make the final vote on recommitting-i.e., killing- the bill little more than a formality prefacing its passage. When sturdy Mr. O'Connor rose to speak his final piece on the matter last week...
...Garner turned the chair over to Indiana's Minton, with a cheery comment: "We've passed 224 pages in 20 minutes-not bad." Two days later the bill that Congressional tax experts have been working on since last autumn catapulted through the Senate without a record vote...
...screen Stokowski in "100 Men and a Girl" and Garbo in "Anna Karenina." This idylic couple, last heard from on the Isle of Capri, got widely diverging reactions from the local public. The big Swede left Harvard hearts cold, but the stoical Stokowski received such an overwhelming Radcliffe vote that the Deanna Durbin musical came in by a landslide. On Friday Mr. Deeds and Theodora go their ways, with Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, Irene Dunne, and Melvyn Douglas making this one of the funniest bills to come to the University in many months...