Word: votes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problem and the continuation of our own prosperity," declared Georgia's studious Walter George. "If we do not make every effort to [maintain export trade], we might as well abandon the Marshall Plan and stop wasting our money." After seven days of debate, the Senate was facing a vote on extension of the reciprocal-trade program...
...week's end, the Senate voted. On the peril-point amendment, the vote divided almost exactly on party lines; only three Democrats-Colorado's Ed Johnson, Wyoming's Joseph O'Mahoney, Oklahoma's Elmer Thomas-crossed over to support the solid front of 35 Republicans. It was not enough. The amendment was defeated...
Seven other amendments were voted down. One offered by Wisconsin's Joseph McCarthy to put quotas on Russian furs was defeated only after a tie vote was broken by Alben Barkley, exercising the Vice President's prerogative for the first time. Then the Senate approved the bill itself, extending the reciprocal trade program for two years by a thumping 62 votes...
Justice Rutledge's vote usually went with the so-called liberal bloc-Justices William O. Douglas, Hugo Black and the late Frank Murphy. Often Rutledge and Murphy, in their passion for individual liberties, found themselves paired in lonely, bitter dissent...
...bring to Winston-Salem. A moderate drinker himself, Gray favors the legalization of liquor sales in dry Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. Santford Martin, 63, the Journal's tall, pink-cheeked editor, is a lifelong teetotaler and editorial crusader for prohibition. Last June, when the county decided to vote on whether to repeal prohibition, wet Publisher Gray and dry Editor Martin found themselves at odds about Journal policy. Gray decided to run pro-repeal editorials (by associate editors) in both papers, give Martin a chance to answer with signed prohibitionist editorials in the Journal...