Word: votes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus, on the eve of the biggest battle of the session, the heat was on some 15 to 20 Republican swing voters who might be pulled by homeside railroad and building-trades union lobbyists to vote for mild legislation. It was also on an equal number of Southern Democrats tempted to vote for a tough bill but under heavy pressure from Speaker Rayburn-"This is a party issue. What are you, a Democrat or a Republican?"-to vote for the Elliott bill. And over the battle hung the prospect of a presidential veto of any labor bill that...
...that Congress passed another bill canceling out the provision he disliked. "We are in full agreement that the independence of the executive and legislative branches must be preserved," said the President as he signed the TVA bill. The Senate promptly carried out its share of the bargain, by voice vote, and the House, which had already adjourned for the week, got ready to act this week...
...this low level of debate, a vote was taken. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan had his automatic Tory majority and won by a vote of 317 to 254. It was an election year, and Macmillan was going to neither scuttle Lennox-Boyd nor admit to any failure...
Unfortunately for the British government, a House of Commons vote would not be the final determination of the Tightness of the Tory course. Negro and Asian delegates, anxiously following the debate from the galleries, were dismayed by the government's bland rejection of an impartial judicial commission: Was this the noble British justice they had been taught to respect? The Devlin commission had cleared Dr. Banda of inciting violence; regardless, said Lennox-Boyd, Dr. Banda and some 500 others would still be held in jail...
Most of the French Congo's 15,000 Matswanists either abstain from voting in elections or vote for the dead Matswa. Particularly nettled by such tactics is the Abbe Fulbert Youlou, Premier of the new Congo Republic, because the Matswanists are of his own tribe-the Lari. Since the Congo recently became self-governing, there have been frequent-clashes between Matswanists and other Lari tribesmen. The Matswanists were stoned; their homes were burned. Driven out of their own countryside, 2,500 Matswanist refugees squatted in a suburb of the capital of Brazzaville and refused to be evacuated...