Word: votes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roughest, bitterest brawl of the 86th Congress. Into Washington poured sacks full of mail from the folks back home. Lobbyists swarmed through Capitol corridors. Worried Congressmen cussed, consulted and conspired. Moving toward a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives was the year's most intensely debated legislation: a labor bill aimed at ending the racketeering and hoodlumism that had become all too evident in some unions, especially the mighty International Brotherhood of Teamsters under its president, James Riddle Hoffa. The House had three choices before...
...push across the Landrum-Griffin bill. Although his friend and coalition ally, Virginia Democrat Howard Smith, assured him that Southern conservatives were lined up solidly behind the bill, Halleck found that some 20 of his own Republicans, all from industrial areas, were prepared to go over the hill, vote for one of the weaker bills. Moreover, the trend was against Halleck: his rasping, hard-driving methods had caused resentment among the G.O.P. rank and file, and he was in danger of losing even more Republicans...
...House Judiciary Committee approved (by a reported 17-13 vote) a moderate version of the Administration's civil-rights program that would 1) make it a federal crime to block school desegregation by force or threat of force, 2) require local election officials to preserve for two years all records of election for federal offices and permit the Justice Department to inspect them, 3) extend the life of the federal Civil Rights Commission for two years beyond its expiration date next month. Earlier the committee (18-13) junked a proposed, tough section that would have empowered the Attorney General...
...ought to make up his mind whether the things he believes in are more likely to come about if he is President." Pollster George Gallup, who last July showed Nixon trailing Democrat Adlai Stevenson 44% to 56%, reported that Nixon's Russian trip boosted his trial-heat vote to 51% v. 49% for Stevenson...
...March. Brazil's newspapers sent their top men to catch Quadros in Japan, Turkey, Israel, Europe. Quadros missed not a beat on the toast-quaffing circuit, had something at every stop to tickle Brazil's minority groups. Said a Rio politician: "Janio won Brazil's Japanese vote in Tokyo, its Italian vote in Rome, the Jewish vote in Tel Aviv." Everywhere, Janio outlined his platform: the same kind of honest government that brought a boom when he was governor (TIME, March...