Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unofficial expression by Neville Chamberlain of his resolve to persuade the House of Commons to vote national military conscription in the United Kingdom...
...month after the Munich agreement Prime Minister Chamberlain got a 345-to-138 vote of confidence from the Commons after outlining his revised foreign policy as follows. Britain must be prepared to accept almost unlimited extension of Germany's influence in East Europe, Japan's in East Asia. But, just as "there is room both for Germany and ourselves in the trade" with East Europe, there was room for Britain and Japan in China. "China," said the Businessman Prime Minister, "cannot be developed into a real market without the influx of a great deal of capital...
Specifically, the veterans suggested that the general strike be postponed on condition that Premier Daladier convene Parliament, a move he has successfully blocked for several weeks, on December 6 for a full debate and a vote of confidence, a course which might prove disastrous to Premier and Cabinet. To this proposal the General Confederation of Labor's executive committee soon answered...
Judges and audience alike of the Lowell-Kirkland debate last night in the Kirkland Common Room cast their vote for Kirkland and the negative side of the question; "Resolved" That the United States should substantially increase the quota for German refugees...
Sharp warnings that Republicans in Congress must not adopt obstructionist tactics in dealing with social reforms and that the G.O.P. gains at the polls should be interpreted more as a protest vote against extreme New Deal proposals than a swing toward Republicanism, punctuated the outward air of harmony that prevailed...