Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favorably on a bill forbidding unauthorized sketches or photographs of U. S. fortifications and equipment-obviously opposed it. Since the resolution is framed aj a Constitutional Amendment, it would need a two-thirds majority in both houses. Chance that the Ludlow Resolution would ever get much closer to a vote than it was last week was minimized when Majority Leader Sam Rayburn announced that he would exert all his influence to prevent its consideration...
...roll call proceeded, Ayes and Noes seesawed so regularly that when the clerk reached the last name-Zimmerman of Missouri-almost nobody was sure who had won. Last of all the clerk called the Speaker, who is required to vote only in case of a tie. When Alabama's William Bankhead answered loudly "No!", there was a rattle of applause, then silence until the vote was counted. A few moments later, Speaker Bankhead announced the result of one of the sharpest legislative battles since the New Deal began. Said he: "Those voting Aye, 216; No, 198. The bill...
...used his parliament at Dublin last week to rub in his paper victory in a manner as annoying as possible to the English. To launch his Free State on a new foreign policy sharply different from that pursued by British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, he asked the Dail to vote de facto recognition by the Irish Free State of Italy's conquest of Ethiopia...
...When the vote was taken, de Valera deputies were joined by those of the official Opposition led by famed William T. Cosgrave. With only the Laborites still opposed, Dublin's de facto recognition of Rome's conquest was voted 72-to-11. Since each ambassador or minister of King George is the direct personal representative of His Majesty, the appointing of an Irish Free State minister at Rome accredited to "Victor Emanuel III, King of Italy and Emperor of Ethiopia" had to be done by George VI. Mr. de Valera therefore posted a letter direct to Buckingham Palace...
...local medical society likewise passed a resolution saying that its members ". . . deeply regret the unfortunate occurrence and the unfavorable publicity to which the S. E. Massengill Company has recently been subjected and extend to Dr. Massengill and his employes a sincere vote of confidence in their integrity and honesty towards the medical profession and to the public and our assurance of our continued complete confidence in his products...