Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...looming cost of Flood Control, however, was only one source of worry to President Coolidge last week. The end of the Congressional session was approaching,* and with it the last-moment votes for all manner of Federal outlay. Senator Smoot was going slowly with the Revenue Act and its $200,000,000 or so reduction of taxes. Some said his motive was to delay the Senate's vote on the Boulder Dam bill. But in the light of an announcement by Representative Snell of New York, trusted Administration man, it looked as though President Coolidge's ever-quick...
...platform which was adopted included a plank declaring prohibition was not a partisan issue and that law enforcement was necessary. A wet plank asking for the repeal of the Volstead Act was voted down 801 to 291. Further planks called for the prohibition of injunctions, and condemned American intervention in Nicaragua on behalf of American capitalists. A plank introduced by a Porto Rican delegate calling for independence for Porto Rico was defeated without a record vote...
...first ballot was so widely scattered that no demonstrations took place, but votes that shifted to Smith and Baker on the second roll call brought forth cheering, and parades of delegates, carrying their standards. On the second ballot the Pennsylvania vote for W. B. Wilson of that state was contested, and the delegation was polled by the permanent chairman, and found to be for Smith by a two-vote margain. All the states voted under the unit rule...
...platform planks for entrance in to the League and Court were carried by overwhelming vote, and no opposition planks were submitted...
...past few days a few of us have been giving serious thought to the casting of our first vote at a presidential election next fall. And at the same time, we became convinced that the situation at it is, is unsatisfactory, not only for the country at large, but for the college man in particular...