Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week announced that he, a Democrat, would vote to seat slush-tainted Senator-elect William S. Vare, a Repubican...
...terse epigrams and a set of rock-ribbed rules.* Now the House was in revolt against its Tsar. The epigrams were impotent without the rules; so Democrats and insurgent Republicans, led by Representative (now Senator) George W. Norris of Nebraska, made an assault upon the rules. They voted to have the House choose the members of the Committee on Rules and ousted the Speaker from it. "Tsar" Cannon objected, was overruled. The House was in a turmoil; hostile Congressmen rushed at the Speaker's rostrum as if to tear him bodily from his throne. His gavel smote his desk...
Last week, with only 39 days in which to vote the budget for next year, Premier Poincaré convoked the Chamber and demanded that the 58 interpolations on the calender be postponed. Twenty-four of the 58 would-be interpolaters took advantage of the rule allowing them five minutes to explain what they wanted to talk about. Deputy Vaillant Couturier (Communist) screamed: "Mussolini is an assassin!" Calm, Premier Poincaré avoided an ''international incident" by pretending that the remark had been addressed to himself. Said he: "We are used to being called names by M. Vaillant Couturier." When...
...clock the audience will be called upon for a decision on the Coolidge proposal. The result of the vote will be announced as the concluding event of the evening...
Following the prepared speeches, members of the audience will be allowed to voice their views in an open discussion of the question. At 9 o'clock there will be a motion on a vote from the house giving a decision on the rebate proposal...