Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...streak a foot wide if he hadn't tried to protect his old friend after all Doheny had done for him." Then the jurors paused for dinner, sang "Bye, Bye, Blackbird," argued, turned on the phonograph, argued, slept, argued. . . . At 9:30 a.m., another ballot was taken. The vote was unanimous for acquittal...
Gould. No sooner had Senator Arthur R. Gould of Maine taken his oath of office, a fortnight ago, than did Senator Walsh of Montana demand an investigation of corruption charges against him. Last week, by a vote of 70 to 7, the Senate adopted Mr. Walsh's resolution. Three Republican Senators and two Democrats were appointed to look into the story of a $100,000 "bribe" which Mr. Gould is said to have paid to the Premier of New Brunswick in 1918 in connection with a railroad deal. Senator Gould is the only Republican in the 69th Congress whose seat...
...Reed investigations showed that he used a slush fund of some $700,000 to win the primaries last spring. Recent researches purport to reveal frauds in the November elections. In many wards in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Mr. Vare's Democratic opponent, William Bauchop Wilson, did not poll a single vote; in 119 city districts in Pittsburgh, Mr. Wilson received less than ten votes in each. Mr. Vare received the votes of one dead man, of one 5-year-old girl, of 25 people who swore they had not been near a polling place. With such facts in his briefcase...
...second session Mrs. Catt epigrammed: "I certainly think it should be made as easy to pass a peace measure as to adopt a war measure. Why should a two-thirds vote be required for peace, and a majority for war?" Mrs. Rufus C. Dawes, sister-in-law of the Vice President, suggested selecting the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee on qualification rather than seniority;* was told satirically (by Denis P. Meyer, Librarian, World Peace Foundation) that "in view of the material available the method of appointment would not greatly matter...
...seven prominent Methodist ministers of Toronto $700,000 worth of O'Keefe Brewery stock on condition that they draw dividends and vote in the management for ten years "to see whether their avarice for money was greater than their principles...