Word: votes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...artificial limbs to the well of the House. Said Potter: "I hate to see the veterans of this country used as political pawns in this great Washington game of cheat." The veterans bombarded the bill with amendments, hoping to reduce it to such a jumble that nobody could vote...
...faces of those old men who fought World War I." As the ayes and nays of the final roll call droned on, the House was so tensely quiet that the click of the clerk's mechanical hand-counter was audible in the galleries. By a single vote, 208 to 207, the House had finally dredged up the courage to kill the bill...
Behind the Times. Not since the House squeezed through extension of the draft by a one-vote margin on the eve of war in 1941 had its members been thrown into such an irresponsible panic. In the showdown, the economy-shouting Republicans had looked even worse than the Democrats. Republicans had followed their leaders, Joseph Martin and Charles Halleck, in voting 2 to 1 for Rankin's raid on the Treasury. Democrats, whose leaders stood fast against the bill, voted 3 to 2 to stop...
...Council-backed constitution now goes to Dean Leighton for final decision before it can go into effect for the Class of '53. In February, however, Leighton gave the Council the green light to construct a charter, reserving only the right to vote provisions which ran counter to College policy...
...constitution permits assessment of dues on the freshman class, but places most fiscal powers of the new Union Committee under some form of vote control either by the Chairman of the Council Freshman Affairs Committee or the Secretary of the Union...