Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also last night a vote determined to continue the investigation, held over from last year, of the status of swimming as a minor or possible major sport...
Feller took the affirmative side of the question, "Resolved: That this house support the Loyalist Government in Spain," defeating the negative speaker, Merwin K. Hart, Jr. '40, by an audience vote of 17 to 9. A second show of hands revealed that the audience's sympathies lay with the Leftists by a ten vote margin...
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 2--The University of Pittsburgh football squad erroneously reported as on "sitdown strike." Members of the Varsity squad decided Saturday night on way back from Durham, N.C., where Duke was defeated Saturday that they would vote down any proposition of post season game. When, on Monday morning, they were asked to vote, they decided against participation...
...Lord Cecil, as president of the British League of Nations Union, fostered a straw vote in which 11,000,000 Britons balloted pro-League. This should have presaged a Labor victory at the next British General Election, since the Labor Opposition has always been pro-League and the Conservatives lukewarm or cold to Geneva. Instead Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin turned the straw votes into Conservative ballots by casting handsome young Anthony Eden spectacularly in the role of the League's Galahad, defender of Ethiopia, had the late King George V dissolve Parliament and order an election at exactly...
...Popular Front Cabinet of middle class Premier Camille Chautemps faced a reconvened Chamber of Deputies last week, won a vote of confidence 399-to-160 after alarming revelations which the Premier led up to by saying...