Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Generalissimo Smoot. He asked first one, then the other about prospects of Tariff Bill early passage in the Senate. Mournfully Senator Watson predicted that the special tariff session of the Senate would end without passing any Tariff Bill. Less pessimistic. Senator Smoot conceded a "chance" of a final Senate vote on the tariff next month...
...Sheppard Amendment reached no vote, became no law. It was referred to the Judiciary Committee, appeared unlikely to reappear during the present Congressional session. But it precipitated a storm of dispute among Drys as well as Wets. The Wets, of course, flayed the idea as a further encroachment on Liberty, a further botching of a bad law. They said it would make millions of additional criminals, fill jails beyond the bursting point. Drys were divided in their opinion. Bishop James Cannon Jr. and Senator Watson of Indiana were favorable. Such potent Drys as Idaho's Borah and Nebraska...
...Vote of Thanks...
...devices for the improvement of the announcing facilities in the box. His hearty good nature and warm cordiality have made dealings between the papers and the A. A. a real pleasure, and everybody who is interested in receiving the Harvard athletic news promptly, accurately, and completely owes him a vote of thanks for putting into his job not only his experience as a professional reporter but also his personality and patience...
...instance, you published to the world my picture, as though I had undertaken to hire some scoundrel to kill a member of the State Legislature; and when, after hearing no testimony except that of the witnesses against me- even the anti-Long leaders themselves did not allow a vote to be taken on such a charge-you said nothing about it. Further, you pictured up a great Mardi Gras party, that I was supposed to have attended, to have been a terrible thing. Evidently some of you have been in New Orleans during Mardi Gras, and if you have...