Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Adopted, by a vote of 70 to 7,the resolution of Senator Walsh of Montana, calling for immediate investigation of corruption charges against Senator Gould of Maine...
Finally, a vote was taken on the appropriation. It passed 140 to 12, illustrating that verbosity means practically nothing except delay to the legislative machinery of the House. One item, however, of $500,000 for "under cover work" without record of expenditure was crossed...
...wastrels, his crooks and bootleggers. The Treasury has been wide open long enough. I am ready to compromise, however, and in the interest of Congressional decency and cleanliness and to get the Prohibition alley-cat off the backs of so-called American statesmen, I will agree to vote a liberal pension to Wayne Wheeler,* provided he will move out of the country and into some land like Soviet Russia or Mexico, where his peculiar talents will be appreciated and poison gas is more popular...
...Because I object to wasting money in feeding jackals and turkey buzzards of Prohibition, I refuse to indorse, agree with or vote for any appropriations designed to continue this futile farce of enforcing a non-enforceable law and taxing my fellow citizens to swell the volume of lawlessness, depravity, corruption and dishonesty now debauching the American Republic...
...held for four years. In 1869, a few days before the death of his wife from tuberculosis, he was elected President of Harvard College. His ideas were known to be very advanced and the Board of Overseers at first rejected his election, subsequently consenting to it by divided vote. He says, "I had not taken much interest in the discussion over me and was content to find relief from the sorrow at home in strenuous labor at the Institute of Technology. When, however, my election as president had been completed--unexpectedly to me--I turned at once to the functions...