Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...local Chambers of Commerce by sending them the recommendations of a committee of engineers and business men who surveyed the Mississippi flood area this autumn. Accompanying the recommendations was a list of arguments against them. The recommendations favored Federal assumption of all flood control expense. So did the final vote...
...next two years. The Ways & Means Committee had raised this figure to $232,735,000 in a Revenue Act it reported last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 19). Last week, when they altered and passed the Revenue Act, the Representatives overrode the Ways & Means Committee at two points and voted to cut the people's taxes by $289,735,000. The first alteration, reducing tax revenues some 24 millions, aimed to benefit corporations with incomes of $15,000 or less. Such corporations constitute about 70% of all U. S. taxpaying corporations. Leaving the tax on larger corporate incomes fixed...
...recent vote of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the standard of exemption from English A of students entering the College has been raised five points. Last year, with the abolition of the anticipatory examinations which had been in force previously, a new system was adopted whereby a mark of 70 per cent or better in his College entrance examinations would excuse a student from his usual Freshman English requirement. For the coming year the work will have to be 75 per cent to procure the student's exemption...
...vote taken showed that 232 men, mostly in the Graduate Schools, wanted all courts to be registered on the night before they were to be used, as opposed to 262 men who wanted the present system retained...
...clung to the little white church where he had preached for the past ten years. "I am unwilling to accept dismissal at the hands of the vestry," he said. "I believe that the majority of the people are with me, and I have been given a unanimous vote of confidence by the clergy of Long Island. I could have gone away with several thousand dollars and probably would have been much happier elsewhere, but I am not to be browbeaten or persuaded by a gift of money. An Episcopal minister has the right to hold his post for life...