Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Robinson: "We will take a vote on the subject there and find out whether the Senator from Alabama is entitled to discredit millions of good citizens of the United States in the name of the Democratic Party because of their religion...
...Headlines screamed throughout the globe, when the 21 Delegations voted 15 to 6 in preliminary conclave that not only plenary sessions of the Conference but also committee meetings should be public. Because the U. S. had been expected to demand secret sessions-lest Latins flay U. S. intervention in Nicaragua-universal astonishment reigned, last week, as Charles Evans Hughes calmly cast the U. S. vote for public sessions. Amazing! Now there would be fireworks...
...nation was to be openly arrived at. Promptly the Cuban president of the Conference, Judge Antonio de Bustamante of the Hague Court, ruled that despite the "publicity" resolution the ordinary canons of procedure would apply. This meant that any session could be made secret by a two thirds vote of its members. Curiously enough, this ruling seemed to meet with the approval of most Latins. Since sagacious Mr. Hughes had called their outstanding bluff, they were as anxious as he to favor a procedure which would prevent, for example, loud squabbles between those embittered rivals Chile and Peru...
...case, Mr. Hughes risked almost nothing by voting for "publicity," since the Conference agenda was already limited to asbestos issues and could not be changed to include dynamite, except by a two thirds vote...
Healthy was the complete calm amid which the French Chamber opened, last week, for its last sessions prior to the general elections in April. The Government of Premier Poincaré won easily a vote of confidence of 310 to 227 on an issue of party politics which had been deemed dynamite-laden, and serene progress loomed in the Chamber while frenzied electioneering began outside...