Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chairman Robert Doughton say in defense of his bill that it might face Presidential veto if the third basket were removed, the House proceeded to cock an appreciative ear when Massachusetts' John McCormack urged that it be removed anyway. When the matter was put to a vote, the House amazingly and resoundingly approved Mr. McCormack's amendment-to empty the third basket by striking it out of the bill -by a vote of 165 to 126. Disconcerted, Mr. Doughton asked for a teller count. This time, as more members appeared from the coat rooms, the vote...
When Congress passed the second Agricultural Adjustment Act last month, most complex of its many complexities appeared to be the means whereby marketing quotas were to be established by a nation-wide vote of farmers. Last week, first two referendums held under the new bill indicated that at least this part of its machinery was in good working order. Farmers in 20 States went to filling stations, schools, grange halls to cast ballots on whether or not the Department of Agriculture should impose quotas on 1938 crops of cotton and tobacco. Counted by AAA County Committees and forwarded...
Amid an uproar of dispute on parliamentary procedure, and a bitter battle over the issues, the Harvard Student Union finally recorded a favorable 5636 vote on the first platform of the Vassar program providing for active measures against aggressor nations...
...bare majority of one vote closed an active battle in which both sides at times threatened to disrupt the meeting. Every one had obviously entered the debate with a definite opinion on the problem and no one changed his mind as a result of the arguments...
...Vote for Seven...