Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alabama the Presidential special pulled up while Franklin Roosevelt devoted his attention to Southern Negroes, who usually can't vote but have enfranchised Northern brothers who could play hob next year by swinging back to the Republican Party. At famed Tuskegee Institute (for Negroes) he locked arms with its distinguished, white-wooled Agricultural Chemist George Washington Carver (see cut), called the students "my boy and girl friends...
What Virginia's handsome Representative Clifton Woodrum called "the best job Congress has done this session" was performed last week in the House more through anger than kindness. All set for execution was a log-rolling act wherein the proponents of $150,000,000 more for WPA would vote $250,000,000 for parity payments into the farm bill, in return for rural support of the WPA money (TIME, April 3). But when the farm bill came to a vote, the city men did not make good. New York's radical Vito Marcantonio and Chicago...
...That vote made Virginia's Woodrum, House champion of Economy, sure of another triumph. As Georgia's irascible Representative Edward E. Cox put it, the country Congressmen would cut the city men's throats...
...other ten Senators," said Lindsay Warren, and the tribute was well earned. For two days a parliamentary battle was fought over the bill. At one point Senator Burt Wheeler of Montana succeeded in amending it to require both Houses' approval of every reorganization move by the President, by vote of 45-to-44. But after two days' smart maneuvering, Jimmy Byrnes got the amendment stricken out by vote of 46-to-44. The bill, substantially as Jimmy Byrnes and Lindsay Warren wanted it, was passed and sent to conference...
...Leader Barkley contributed a laugh, however. To make sure no Senator misunderstood, he intervened to have a question reread before a vote was taken. Then he got balled up himself, voted the wrong...