Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...homestead, two men reach for and pick perhaps one pepper, then the crew and their transportation hunt a tree for shade and well earned rest. I sincerely hope our Senator fails in his mission to get $50,000,000 to increase our troubles. Perhaps Congress will vote him the 0's and not the 5. We who love our State are sticking all the closer. While being poor is no fun, this is the best place in the world to be poor in. We ask for nothing and hope we get what we ask for. JOHN SMITH...
Nothing could have been more fortunate for the Government, for the cause of ratification, for the Prime Minister himself. The Deputies, overawed by M. Poin-caré's gargantuan logic, had given him a vote of confidence 304 to 239 on a minor issue, but they had also grown sick and tired of the sound and sight of him. Sighs of relief stirred the sultry air as the Government's defense was taken over by pouchy-eyed Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, wise and wily as an old tomcat, nine times Prime Minister of France, incomparably her most winning...
Sweltering Showdown. Though the potent attack of M. Franklin-Bouillion and his Bloc had thus been safely weathered, long hours of sultry word-fencing by M. Briand with at least a dozen orators ensued before the question reached a vote. Fearful that the Deputies would never commit themselves to explicit ratification, the government did not put the issue squarely, as the final showdown came. Instead the Chamber was asked to pass a weasel-Jaw authorizing popular President Gaston ("Gastounet"') Domergue to perform the act of ratification by executive decree. Prior to seeking action on even this weasel...
...eleventh day of debate, at 1:20 A.M., with M. Briand in command, with M. Poin-caré in bed, and with the thermometer at 90° the government put through their law with a vote of 300 ouis to 292 nons. Thus by the narrow squeak of 8 votes-the smallest majority thus far received by the present government-M. Domergue was authorized to pledge that France will pay the U. S. a total of $6,847,-674,104.17 (of which $2,822,674,104.17 is interest) over 62 years. The French Senate must confirm the Chamber...
...consensus of the convention, expressed in a unanimous vote of confidence in outgoing President Thayer, was that sumptuary legislation, including Prohibition, baffles medical practice, that alcoholics are at times a medical necessity...