Word: votes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Catholic for President: "My vote would never be changed on the basis of . . . religion," but he was unwilling to speculate on a Roman Catholic candidate's chances of being elected in 1960. "I have no opinion whatsoever," said he. "Al Smith was nominated, and he was defeated. I don't know whether the thinking of the country has changed...
...Senate by voice vote gave the Tennessee Valley Authority permission to issue and sell up to $750 million worth of bonds to help finance its power system. The Administration had requested authority for the Budget Bureau to approve the sales, but Congress reserved that authority for itself. It also put a five-mile limit on further TVA territorial expansion...
When the news broke, a group of panicky Labor M.P.s hastened off to Gaitskell, urged him to call a special private parliamentary meeting to bolster himself with a renewed vote of confidence. But Gaitskell peremptorily refused: "Why? There's no need." He was ready to give battle...
...candidates-some 100,000 of them -campaigned right through election day. Ministers and imams, grocers and streetcar conductors, they handshook their way right up to the polling boxes, passed out slips of colored paper with their names printed in helpfully large letters. The most conscientious elector (compelled to vote, or pay a $3 fine), retiring to his polling booth with a list of candidates six pages long, had a tough time finding as many as 30 names that he could recognize and mark. It took President Nasser himself four minutes to vote, though the day before he had gone over...
...treaty but by Trujillo's long and bloody record. "The Rio treaty is not a piece of paper at the service of dictators!" shouted Cuba's Minister of State Rauú Roa, and other delegates nodded their agreement. Cuba and Venezuela lined up enough countries to vote down the Dominicans. Ambassador Díaz Ordóñez scrambled to his feet and withdrew his motion just in time to avoid defeat...