Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tilt alone, but all played in the Yale game. Daley, accounted as a regular guard, and laid low in the middle of the season by an attack of appendicitis, was kept from playing in the letter games for the third successive year, but was awarded a letter by special vote of the Athletic Association, on the recommendation of Captain Coady and Coach Horween...
Triumph. M. Poincaré won cloture by the smashing vote of 365 to 207. That meant that the budget would go through. The Chamber which last spring cut down Cabinet after Cabinet in an orgy of political double crossing has at last come definitely to its senses. The Sacred Union Cabinet of M. Poincaré (TIME, Aug. 9) has achieved what was possible to no single faction. A period of uneventful balloting upon the hundreds of clauses in the budget loomed. As an urgent prelude there were introduced before the Chamber last week War Minister Painlevé's "economy...
...Deputies filed past the rostrum depositing their ballots they chanted a Fascist song: "Youth!! Youth!! Springtime of Beauty. . . ." The bill passed 293 to 10. As the vote was announced...
...bill for 45 minutes. While they were gone Signor Mussolini relaxed, chatted with his Ministers, smiled and nodded as the Deputies and gallery roared plaudits. When the Committee returned and reported favorably on the bill Premier Mussolini stalked to the ballot box. "FOR FASCISM!" he cried, and cast his vote. Three hundred and forty-one Fascists voted with him. The Giolittists cast against him twelve innocuous and well stage-managed votes. It is significant that one-time Premier Giolitti had the reputation in his palmiest days of being notably corrupt and was once impeached for abuse of power...
Violent Developments. Though the Senate has yet to ratify the bills passed by the Chamber last week, the Deputies had hardly ceased to vote when Fascist police and soldiers swooped down upon all known gathering places of antiFascists, ejected and in many cases arrested persons found there, and padlocked the buildings in accordance with the not yet legalized decree suppressing anti-Fascist gatherings of every sort. Followed swiftly an order by Secretary General Turati that all Italians and foreigners must salute the Fascist banner whenever and wherever it is displayed. The Secretary, a feverish zealot, also began a tour...