Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After a heated discussion which was taken up by the house, the Debating Union by a 31-16 vote decided last night in favor of the negative side of the question "Resolved: That this House believes that democratic government has failed...
...motion for the vote may be presented any time after the end of the prepared speeches...
After a hubbub and by a vote of 53 to 42, the convention indorsed the proposed amendment to the Penal Code which would permit physicians to give contraceptive prescriptions to any married woman. Fervent advocates of the amendment hailed birth control as a means of preventing war, checking crime and disease...
...books and toys insidious were the "exhibits" piled high last week upon a great round table in the lobby of the German Reichstag and labeled Schund und Schmutz (Trash and Smut). Deputies, austere or mirthful, looked at them. To do so was their duty. They were about to vote upon the third and final reading of the bill creating a censorship committee (TIME, Nov. 29), Irate, the opponents of the bill pointed out that the Bible and at least half the classics of German literature could be suppressed as "obscene" if the law went into effect. None the less...
...motion to close the debate will be presented promptly at 9.30 o'clock, when the audience will vote on the question. Those who leave early may register their votes with the tellers at the door...