Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debated Lausanne Treaty with Turkey behind closed doors; arrived at neither conclusion nor vote...
...Smith, Senator-elect and Senator-designate for the unexpired term of the late Senator McKinley, is debating Senator whether he should soon come knocking at the Senate door. His lawyer returned from Washington last week with the sad news that only 25 Republicans and four Democrats are willing to vote to seat...
...begin construction of three cruisers. President Coolidge had said in his budget message and many times since that he would brook no immediate appropriations for cruiser building. "Big Navy" men in the House were confident of defying him; potent and regular Republican leaders were backing them. The vote was taken last week; Mr. Tilson's amendment was rejected, 183 to 161. Who had saved the President...
...thing, Representative Burton of Ohio, wise G. O. P. veteran, had sounded a call for "an era of peace" just before the vote. A few regular Republicans such as Mr. French of Idaho, Mr. Green of Iowa, Mr. Luce of Massachusetts, Mr. Tincher of Kansas rallied round Mr. Burton; but the majority of votes which rescued the President came from unfamiliar sources: 62 Democrats (from Mr. Jacobstein to Mr. Swank); the lone Socialist, Mr. Berger; the entire Farmer-Laborite group, Messrs. Carss, Kvale, Wefald; Republican insurgents such as Mr. Frear of Wisconsin, Mr. Sosnow-ski, the Pole from Detroit...
...That is one wing of the city machine. The other consists . . . partly of such of the ostensible respectable elements of the communi- ty as are willing (in Pittsburgh, for example) to shut their eyes and make common cause with gangsters, vote thieves, dive keepers, criminals and harlots, because of the social and financial eminence of the Mellon name...