Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mayor Harry Mackay of Philadelphia told newsmen that when he lunched with him in Paris the day before the Leviathan sailed, the general had made no plans for returning to the U. S. The speed, the name, the talk that a Republican was needed to attract the Veterans' vote, combined to make some people suspect that General Pershing had been called from retirement to help make the U. S. safe...
...patron-saint and Indian rigmarole were adopted as a protest against Toryism. The objects of the Society were and have been benevolent-making immigrants comfortable, for example. The activities of the members were and have been political. After comforting immigrants, one can enfranchise them and show them how to vote...
...vain M. Valdemaras bristled, protested, even hurled vituperations at M. Zaleski. The Council's dander was now up, and its 14 regular members hastened to vote "yes" unanimously to a resolution so drafted as eventually to confirm Poland in her possession of Vilna...
Then, because Lithuania was automatically an extraordinary member of the Council, last week, since her affairs were being discussed, the turn of M. Valdemaras came to vote...
Therefore, since the Council cannot act in matters of state if there be even one dissenting vote, the proceedings came to an abrupt, ridiculous halt. Quick to relieve the tension, however, was Sir Austen Chamberlain. "I will introduce," said he sonorously, "a motion which is clearly a matter of procedure, and hence needs only a majority, namely, that the Council put the question of Polish-Lithuanian relations on the agenda of the September session...