Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...political refusal to confirm his reappointment of John Jacob Esch to the Interstate Commerce Commission,President Coolidge made no haste to select a substitute for Mr. Esch. Reports got about that the President's annoyance had carried him so far that he would override the Senate's vote and give Mr. Esch a recess appointment. Experts pondered the legality of such a move. The I. C. C., perhaps at the President's suggestion, retained Mr. Esch in a private capacity, to advise with it on unfinished business with which he is familiar...
...Senate having voted for Federal operation of Muscle Shoals, and the House having scrapped in Committee all bills providing alternative treatment, President Coolidge let it be known that he was a bitter-end proponent of the plan to lease Muscle Shoals for operation by private interests. . . . More visibly due for a veto was any revenue act providing a tax cut greater than $225,000,000. A direct message from the President to Congress urged favorable action on Secretary MelIon's plan for helping Austria to raise a $100,000,000 rehabilitation loan by subordinating liens taken...
...independent vote that decides elections. In each of the 15 precincts in Cambridge. I have four or five personal friends who have lists of all the voters," said Mayor Quinn, striking a lighter vein. "I have them bring to the polls only certain men, and those men I know will vote for Quinn. But you can't do that in the state campaigns," he declared...
...President Emeritus David Starr Jordan of Stanford University, stepped in as acting mayor and "closed the town." The town had needed closing so badly that the Better Element was very pleased with Mrs. Landes. In 1926, it elected her Mayor of Seattle by a 5,000-vote majority...
After the vote, triumphant lights twinkled far into the night at the sumptuous Managua residence of famed onetime President of Nicaragua, General Emiliano Chamorro. He had defeated the bill. His potent, ancestral family controls the Conservative electorate of Nicaragua; and that control enabled General Chamorro to wipe out, last week, his old score against the U. S. State Department, which refused to recognize a government set up by him, some years ago, after a coup d'etat...