Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...repair the damage injudiciously done. When Congress reassembled, Floor Leader Tilson moved to strike out both the Hoch and the Tinkham amendments, to restore the original provisions of the Census & Reapportionment Bill. By astute parliamentary direction, the Tilson amendment was adopted and the measure passed by a vote of 271 to 104. The sound and fury ultimately signified nothing, except the sectional antagonisms that lie so close below the House's usually calm surface...
...which diggers are still clearing of the ashes poured on that pleasure resort by the volcano in A. D. 79. The signs are painted on the walls and are chiefly electioneering vaunts. Examples: ''Mansa Sabinus never gets drunk"; "If you care for good bread and better plays, vote for Cleonius Prisus"; ''Vote for Julius Politius, a man as handsome as the god Apollo...
...erection of a Faculty Club for members of the Faculty of Harvard University has been appropriated by the terms of a vote of the Corporation passed in a recent meeting, according to Professor C. H. Grandgent '83, chairman of the Committee on the Faculty Club...
Arthur Henderson, potent Laborite lieutenant, will have his two sons, William and Arthur Jr., seated and ready to vote...
...Even narrower than Lady Astor's was the squeak of immaculate, bemonocled Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary of the Baldwin government. In the West Birmingham constituency which his late great father, "Joe" Chamberlain, pillar of Liberalism, established as a family vote-preserve, Sir Austen heard he had a lead of only 50 votes over his Labor opponent. Incredulous, he demanded a recount. His lead then shrank to 43. In contrast, Sir Austen's humbler young halfbrother, Arthur Neville Chamberlain, Minister of Health, won what the London Times called "the most outstanding Conservative personal victory," a majority...