Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Hugh Johnson could complain. Eschewing aspects which aroused cries of "Dictator!" last session, the new measure simply invited the President to submit before Jan. 21, 1941 a plan to alter the executive establishment. The plan would become effective if Congress should not (without filibustering) veto it by majority vote in 60 days. Things which the President may not touch or have: Comptroller-General's office, Civil Service Commission, Department of Public Welfare or Works, more than six administrative assistants...
...question was finally put in an amendment by New Jersey's Sutphin, who usually speaks for Assistant Secretary of the Navy Edison (TIME, Feb. 20). Republican Leader Joe Martin shrewdly held his forces in hand until he could combine them with 64 anti-Guam Democrats. The vote was 205 to 168 against Guam, and then 368 to 4 in favor of the other eleven bases. Republican Adman Bruce Barton, unable to control himself: "Guam, Guam with the Wind...
Some measure of free speech exists in Poland and most of the time the Government tolerates an opposition press. The right of assembly cannot be said to be denied. All Poles over 24 vote for the Sejm, lower house of Parliament, and, most paradoxical for a semi-dictatorship, there are cities in Poland which have Socialist mayors and councils...
Three hundred and twenty students will vote today in the annual election for President and vice-President of Phillips Brooks House. The list of nominees consists of eight members of the Junior Class who have been prominent in P. B. H. activities for the past three years...
...presentation of membership cards for identification. The polling places in the House dining halls, the Freshman Union, Dudley Hall, and Phillips Brooks House will be open during lunch and dinner hours. Nathaniel H. Batchelder, Jr. '39 is in charge of the election. All members are urged to vote...