Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last winter Mr. Bingham recommended the immediate erection of a new stadium or the enlargement of the present plant as the logical answer to the question raised by the condemnation of the old wooden seats. A vote of the Corporation and the Board of Overseers rejected this proposition and forced the falling back on an expedient device. The remedy adopted will be, like its motivating force, one of expediency...
...vital trade with India. Whether a more effective boycott could be staged next year is a question for Hindu Gods-and Mohammed's Allah-to answer. Last week the Subjects Committee of the Indian National Congress put Saint Gandhi's ultimatum on the agenda by a decisive vote...
...Fenn is a patient, high-minded 72-year-oldster. Homer Hoch of Kansas is an electric, driving "youngster" of 49. It is not likely that Mr. Fenn will catch the Homer nodding but neither is it likely that the Hoch logic will persuade the big-state delegations to vote down Mr. Fenn's long-laid plan...
...relations, a group of Senators was seen forming to pass strictures. Their reasons ranged from the super-patriotism of New 'Hampshire's Moses to the wordy scorn of Maryland's Bruce, who called the treaty a "futile gesture" and an "anemic pact" for which he would vote only to move the U.S. closer to the World Court and the League of Nations...
...debated the House appropriations bill for the Treasury and Post Office departments; put in a joker for $270,000,000 to enforce prohibition at Senator Bruce's instigation; sent it to conference; adopted the conference report, taking out the joker and leaving $13,500,000 for prohibition, by vote of 38 to 35; sent the bill to the President. Said Senator Bruce: "The way to get rid of a bad law is to enforce...