Word: votes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though I was born and raised a Democrat, Dick Nixon has my vote in the coming election. Any man who can spread so much good will with no beat-around-the-bush stuff is worthy of a good Democratic vote...
...Play." But the dispute between legislators and labor leaders was not the only-and perhaps not the most important-result of the House labor vote. In the wake of that vote came a split in House Democratic ranks that may well influence the whole legislative course for a long while to come. Although they fight each other on civil rights issues, Northern liberals and Southern conservatives have long scratched each others' backs in other areas: Northerners, for example, have supported such Southern-backed bills as price supports for peanuts, tobacco and cotton, while Southerners have helped put across Northern...
...would be unreasonable to make such an experiment in the Sahara at the period of greatest heat," said a French official. The heat was of two kinds-the summer sun, which lasts until mid-September, and the September U.N. General Assembly session, where the French face a closer vote on the Algerian question. January seems like better political weather...
Ecuador's current President, Ponce Enríquez, first Conservative in the office since 1895, provided the toughest test of the new stability. Squeezing through a split in the Liberals, Ponce won only 29% of the vote, topped his nearest Liberal opponent by only .5%, nevertheless was confirmed, and has held on with only a few uprisings, so mild as to be almost unnoticeable. After 150 years, Ecuador has learned how to live with freedom...
...mile highway-building program from skidding to a halt. The committee, which ten times has vowed never to boost the federal gasoline tax, changed its mind; it approved a 1? hike to 4? a gallon, effective for 22 months from Sept. 1 to June 30, 1961. The lopsided vote (16 to 9) marked a partial victory for the Administration; it has championed a fiveyear, 1½? boost, bucked a congressional bond-floating plan that would have added huge interest charges, increased vastly the cost of the program. Both Congress and the Administration are expected to accept the Ways & Means compromise...