Word: votes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...return for the loyalty he demands, Old Pro Halleck is especially careful to care for his walking wounded. When Indiana's William Bray gave in to Halleck and voted to sustain the Rural Electrification Administration veto, he feared that it would cost him his career. After the vote he told Halleck he was finished-there were just too many REA supporters in his district. Halleck got on the telephone, called Republican leaders in Bray's district (Martinsville), told them to rally behind the worried Congressman...
...postwar Cabinets of the preDe Gaulle Fourth Republic into helplessness and defeat, the favorite by far was the deadly instrument of interpellations (questions in debate). The technique was to pop a question at a minister, then toss in a series of motions, and demand a debate and a vote on every single one of them. As perfected in the 1952 debate that stymied the Tunisian reform program of Premier Pinay's government, this method of ministerial massacre has been known ever since as " Tunisification...
...earthy language: "Whatever people may say or think, there is a parliamentary regime in France. The constitution provides a number of ways a government may be turned out of office, notably through a motion of censure, as in Great Britain. But the procedure of oral questions followed by a vote is the same as syphilis-first it weakens, then it kills...
...island's inhabitants, four-fifths of whom are Chinese and therefore bound by ties of blood and language, at least, to the giant Communist Chinese republic to the north. In the old days only British subjects-which automatically included everyone born in Singapore-could cast a vote. Under the new constitution voting is compulsory for all, and the ballot is thrown open to hundreds of thousands of Chinese born outside Singapore, most of whom are unable to speak English. In the new Parliament, in fact, English will cease to be the official language and members may debate in English...
...nine weeks Singapore's tropical nights have been loud with the sounds of political campaigning, bright with electric signs spelling out two messages: "You must vote" and "Your vote is secret." Last week, in elections for the first government of the State of Singapore, the left-wing People's Action Party swept 43 of the 51 seats. Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock, 44, the able young trade unionist who established peace in the island after the bloody 1955 riots by jailing half a dozen leaders of the P.A.P.'s Communist wing, failed utterly in last-minute efforts...