Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spend anything but Sunday on Sunday in West Virginia. Everybody's drunk or sleeping it off down there on Sunday. . . . What President did West Virginia ever produce? The nearest she came was John T. Davis4 and he moved out soon as he grew up. He goes back there to vote, sure. Why not spend a little carfare for the sake of lining up several thousand votes out of sheer sentiment? But what big men has West Virgina got? Senator So-and-so, I suppose, and Senator Whozis. I never heard of them. They can't stack up against Fess...
...Passed a bill permitting only persons who speak and write the English language to vote in Alaska. (Bill went to the Senate...
Last week the issue was again settled. The Senate voted, 59-10, to table Senator Trammell's resolution which would rescind last year's acceptance of the World Court. Said Senators: "We do not wish to waste time discussing it." On the heels of this vote came reports that Great Britain and two other nations had refused to accept the U. S. reservations. A coincidence is always a matter of some importance. Senators issued brief hosannas...
Glass v. Wheeler. The Senate was trying to set a date to vote on the McFadden branch banking bill. Senator Burton K. Wheeler demanded that he be allowed to speak for one hour in opposition to the bill, said that Senators Pepper and Glass had promised him the opportunity the night before. Senator Glass immediately denied any such promise. Vice President Dawes rapped his gavel, ruled the discussion out of order, proceeded with a roll call. In the rear of the Senate chamber Carter Glass, 69, thorough Virginia gentleman, ripe scholar, co-author of the Federal Reserve banking...
...Archbishop of York, 62 and alert, spoke: Let the Churchmen ponder well these changes. The bishops will have to vote on them in March, the Church as a whole in July, and later Parliament, for in the end Parliament controls the Established Church in Egland...