Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Approved, without a record vote, the nomination of Thurman Wesley Arnold as Assistant Attorney General...
...quasi-judicial bodies like the Board of Tax Appeals, Federal Trade Commission, National Labor Relations Board, as the Brownlow Committee had originally suggested. Though he could reshuffle agencies, the President could not create any new ones unless they were to serve functions already authorized by Congress. Changes could be voted down by Congress within a 60-day limit, but if Congress disapproved, a Presidential veto of the disapproval could be overridden only by a two-thirds vote...
Next day, when a vote was finally taken, Mr. Wheeler's canny amendment was beaten by an even smaller vote than its predecessor-43-to-39. By this time, however, to offset its dwindling majority, the Administration bloc had found a new trump card in the form of charges that a good part of the pressure against the bill had been generated by a high-powered lobby financed by Publisher Frank Gannett. Convening his Lobby Investigation Committee for the first time since he succeeded Hugo Black as its chairman, Indiana's Sherman Minton quickly produced a Dr. Edward...
...half, struck these keynotes: 1) friendship with Mussolini, which drew the loudest Reichstag cheers; 2) denunciation of "Schuschnigg who possessed no legal right of existence!" which drew loudest boos and cries of "Schuschnigg shame!"; 3) announcement that the German Reichstag will dissolve and Germans as well as Austrians will vote in the coming plebiscite April 10, following which a new Reichstag will be seated; 4) declaration that "Germany wants only peace! . . . She is ready, however, to give her last man for honor and existence!";* 5) high-powered dwelling by the Dictator upon what he insists has been the plight...
...Twentieth Century-Fox Producer Darryl F. Zanuck for consistently high quality in 1937 production went the newest & biggest award, an effeminate-looking bust of the late young M-G-M producer, Irving G. Thalberg; to meritorious others, other Oscars, plaques, scrolls. In other years winners were chosen by vote of the Academy members (less than 1,000). This year the chief ones were elected in a poll of 15,000 actors, directors, writers, other eligible Hollywood craftsmen...