Word: votes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bold, even risky step for the Secretary of State to take. Before the Senate could vote on the Atlantic pact (which requires a two-thirds majority), Acheson would be forced to ask a handout from a Congress which still hoped to get through the session without saddling a deficit on the country. If pact and handout were wrapped too tightly together, Acheson apparently feared, Congress might reject both. So Dean Acheson set out to prove that arms and the pact logically belonged together-but were really separate. It took some twisting of the tongue, even for a practiced diplomat...
...until the 13th day of debate that Lucas could finally bring ECA to a vote. After all the talk, it passed without trouble. The Senate approved the full $5.5 billion authorization by an overwhelming 70-to-7 majority...
...thing these days was as sure as death & taxes: the Government is going to pay the farmer to keep him prosperous. Long ago a Republican Congress tried to buy the farmer's vote with the McNary-Haugen bill, but Calvin Coolidge twice vetoed it; Henry Wallace bought the farmer and got away with it. Secretary Brannan's program was an even higher bid for the U.S. farmer's favor than any Henry had thought up. Said the New York Times's Arthur Krock: ". . . no more wondrous pill was ever compounded in the pharmacy of politics...
Here are a couple of the blessings Mr. Toomey's bill could provide, if passed: No one could advocate any peaceable change in either the state or federal constitutions without losing his right to vote and hold office. If a future legislature felt in a particularly conservative mood, it could pass a law under this amendment preventing anybody to the left of--Mr. Toomey, for example--from voting or holding office...
...include non-Communists who are suspiciously unorthodox or un-Democratic or un-Republican or possibly un-Toomeyish. But even if the legislature were composed of Eagle Scouts, instead of being conspicuously sprinkled with Toomeys, it would be dangerous to give that body the incredible power of deciding who could vote and who couldn...