Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...homesick. April, too, is the month when His Majesty's Government gives a significant demonstration of its democratic character: in April the Chancellor of the Exchequer appears before a crowded House of Commons to "open" the budget, i. e., to ask the people's representatives to vote the taxes which the people will have to pay. Last April Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon appeared before the Commons with the highest peacetime budget in Britain's history -$6,610,000,000 (estimated at $5 to the pound), nearly half of which was to arm the country...
...year followed a good year. Last December, when tobacco growers were called to a crop-control referendum, they had just finished disposing of a big (800-million-pound) crop at the satisfying average price of 22? per pound. They sneered at the compulsory quotas Henry Wallace wanted them to vote and proceeded to plant a far greater acreage this year than quota allotments would have permitted. Fine weather favored the growing, and up sprouted 1,014,000,000 pounds of fat tobacco, 200 million pounds more than a maximum year's consumption...
...said crafty Henry Wallace, none of this would be done unless farmers vote for a compulsory quota (660,000,000 pounds) in the October 5 referendum...
Would it not be wiser for the nation's students to announce their sentiment on the embargo question? The League states that "when crises arise that clearly threaten our national independence by forcing us into the European conflict, we want to allow the members of the League to vote on a definite stand." Has not the crisis arisen? Is not the embargo issue proclaimed to be the "guarantee of neutrality," the "opening wedge to war?" Let the committee take a stand on this crisis, on the means of maintaining neutrality. Those who honestly seek neutrality will be more likely...
...manufacturer ($50,000,000 and over) wanted Social Security repealed, but 92.9% wanted it modified. Among small retailers (under $30,000), 20.4% wanted it repealed and 40.9% wanted it kept unchanged. For the Wagner Act. the biggest vote for repeal (48-49.1%) was among small manufacturers and big retailers, but big manufacturers gave the smallest vote for outright repeal (14.3%). Small retailers split, voting 32.6% for repeal and 25-5% (the highest) for keeping...