Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rise at a certain moment to present the District of Columbia Airport Bill, missed his cue and before Senator Barkley woke New York's Senator Wagner had the floor. Senator Wagner brought up the Wagner-Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill. Although Alben Barkley has cast a good Southern vote against anti-lynching bills in the past, he was caught in a legislative trap. To prevent a new filibuster from wrecking the closing hours of the session, he promised Senator Wagner if he would withdraw it for the time, that it would be considered, second only to the Farm Bill, next...
...Whenever the Republican Party, the Democratic Party or the New Deal Party or any other party," rumbled North Carolina's Josiah Bailey, "caters to the Negro vote, it is going to elect to office common fellows of the baser sort." But when Kenneth McKellar began scornfully quoting from the bill in an effort to establish its unconstitutionality, Senator Wagner pointed out that the passage in question was a quotation from the Fourteenth Amendment. "Yes," stammered Senator McKellar...
Paper Victory. As Walter White sat peering curiously down at the Senate from his gallery seat, he had already won a paper victory. He claimed, and neutral observers were disposed to accept his estimate, 73 votes for his bill in the turbulent chamber below. But these were promissory notes, useless until a final roll call forced collection. And just as there were Representatives willing to bring the Administration's Wages-&-Hours Bill out of an obstructive rules committee but unwilling to vote for it when they got the chance, so too there were Senators last week willing to vote...
Such were the words Franklin Delano Roosevelt wrote to Speaker William Bankhead, such the words Speaker Bankhead read to the House just before it voted on the Ludlow Resolution, calling for a national referendum before declaring war. The letter served its purpose perfectly. The resolution, brought up at the height of the Panay crisis (TIME, Dec. 27), was sent back to committee, presumably to stay, by a vote...
...taking over my responsibilities as president of the Young Conservatives, I would like to make clear that I am not heading a pro-fascist organization. The Organization has made one of the principal points of the constitution that was adopted by a unanimous vote at the first meeting, that it, opposes Fascism and Communism, and in strict adherence to its purpose, its platform stand for neutrality in Spain...