Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rivers & harbors pork, $25,000,000 of flood control works. On the Senate floor, restlessness to restore these items impelled Majority Leader Barkley to promise that, if Senators would let the savings stand, the President would spend equivalent sums on these projects from Relief moneys. Avoiding a record vote, the Senators assured themselves of credit with the home folks, voted the $50,000,000 back...
...Another witness-of-the-week was Dr. Francis Everett ("Plan") Townsend. who watched grimly from the gallery while the House voted down, 302-to-97, his bill to pay all 60-year-oldsters Federal pensions of $50-60 per month, financed by sales taxes to produce $4-6,000,000,000 piled on top of all other U. S. taxes. Chairman Doughton of the Ways & Means Committee delivered the official excoriation, using the following adjectives: unequal, unjust, unsound, fanatical, intolerable, inequitable, cockeyed, crackpot. Dr. Townsend's solace: three years ago the House had him sentenced for contempt (Franklin Roosevelt...
...another $500,000,000 in fiscal 1940. Since then PWA has been "reorganized," along with WPA, USHA and several other agencies, into a new Federal Works Agency (effective July 1). Not the Starnes bill, but a PWA allotment of similar size out of the money it was going to vote for WPA, was what seemed to be in the subcommittee's mind. Two reasons, besides Mr. Roosevelt's renewed urge to "invest" in public works, guided the subcommittee in this direction: discovery of items in WPA's proposed budget (the first ever submitted to Congress in itemized...
...gathered at the Place de la Concorde and started over a bridge across the Seine to rush the Chamber of Deputies on the opposite bank. Mobile Guards, assembled by the Daladier Government, fired into the crowd: 24 were killed, hundreds injured. Next day, without waiting for a vote from the Chamber, the Premier resigned, a thoroughly discredited, despised politician. The Right nicknamed him Le Fusilleur ("The Rifleman"). The Left accused him of cowardice...
...laymen all college teachers are professors, but the college hierarchy has many orders-assistants, fellows, lecturers, instructors, assistant professors, associate professors, full professors. Associate and full professors usually have permanent tenure, get good salaries, vote on college policies. But professorships are few, and lower jobs are ill-paid and precarious...