Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Judge Joshua Greenwood of Salt Lake City was second to speak against the Smith resolution. "If he [Governor Smith] is nominated, I shall vote and work for him," said Judge Greenwood. "But ... I am not willing that it should go out to the North and the East and the South without further conventions that the great West is for Smith for President. If you insist on that, then we have reached the parting of the ways...
...plan. A majority of the departments canvassed have already approved the new plan in its main outline, while leaving the details, and in many cases the final decision as to its adoption to the individual professors and instructors. The remainder of the departments have not yet passed a final vote on the matter...
Among the departments which have definitely voted to try the reading periods in at least some of their courses are English, Government, Modern Languages, Ancient Languages, and Philosophy and Psychology. While the members of the German Department have not yet taken a final vote on the matter it is felt certain among the members of the department that the reading plan will be put into effect in the advanced courses at least. Comparative Literature, Social Ethics, and Fine Arts officers have decided to leave the adoption or rejection of the reading periods entirely in the hands of the heads...
...Stunners" left in Washington. He explained to President Coolidge and Secretary Mellon that his resignation was in no way influenced by the controversy which the Federal Reserve Board had lately with its Chicago member bank, when Mr. Crissinger was charged with domineering because he cast a deciding vote to make the Chicago bank lower its rediscount rate against its will (TIME, Sept. 19, BUSINESS). Mr. Crissinger explained that his wife's poor health and his own opportunity to increase his income as an executive of a District of Columbia investment banking house (the F. H. Smith Co.**) made...
President. The assembled representatives of member nations of the League of Nations elected by a majority of one vote Senor Alberto Guani of Chile, President of the eighth Assembly. Count Albert Dietrichstein Mensdorff-Pouilly of Austria was thus narrowly de- feated. Past Presidents in order of incumbency: Paul Hymans, Belgium, 1920; Herman Adriaan Van Karnebeek, the Netherlands, 1921; Augustine Edwards, Chile, 1922; Cosme de la Torriente y Peraza, Cuba, 1923; Giuseppe Motta, Switzerland, 1924; Senator Raoul Dandurand, Canada, 1925; Mont-chilo Nintchitch, Jugoslavia...