Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debated a bill by Senator Jones of Washington to keep the U. S. in the shipping business by requiring a unanimous vote of the U. S. Shipping Board to sell any government-owned ship; passed it, 53 to 31. Anticipating opposition from the House and a veto by the President, Senator Jones offered his measure as a "rider" to the already delayed and complicated Revenue Act of 1928, with which the Senate will not deal until next month...
...members of the University are eligible to vote in the election which will be held on February 21. Ballot boxes will be placed in Sever Hall and the Phillips Brooks House between 9 and 5 o'clock on that...
Nicaragua. If the U. S. is prosecuting a "war" and not a "police expedition" in Nicaragua, Congress did not declare the "war." Yet Congress alone may make war. Democrats and irregular Republicans have been introducing resolutions, backed by literal arguments, to bring the "war" question to a vote. Chairman Borah of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee threw his weight in with Administration Senators to keep the question in abeyance, at least until President Coolidge returned from the Pan-American Congress. Then, last fortnight, Senator Borah said he favored an Inquiry into the whole Nicaraguan affair and a complete reformulation...
Republic and Trumbull became a probability. Republic stockholders ratified the project. Trumbull stockholders are yet to vote on it. Joined, they have assets of nearly $190,000,000, and capacity to pro- duce 1,900,000 tons of steel ingots yearly...
Leanor Fresnel Loree, the indefatigable, wished the road as part of his much discussed fifth eastern railroad system. In buying Lehigh Valley shares and securing proxies to vote at the Philadelphia meeting, Mr. Loree had back of him the fortunes of the Harriman family (he was a close associate of the late Edward Henry Harriman), and the even greater powers of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Kuhn, Loeb & Co. He himself did not attend the meeting, remaining at his home at West Orange...