Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is no real fight between a Truman and a Republican," he cried. "The bigger the peace vote in 1948, the more definitely the world will know that the U.S. is not behind the bipartisan reactionary war policy which is dividing the world into two armed camps and making inevitable the day when American soldiers will be lying in their arctic suits in the Russian snow...
...consort's annual allowance. Joseph Hume, the radical member for Kilkenny, thought it was too much. "Are you aware," he asked his Tory colleagues, "of the danger of setting a young man down in London with so much money in his pocket?" The House of Commons took a vote and decided that ?40,000 a year was ample for Victoria's Prince Albert...
When the matter came to a vote, 164 Laborites were against the allowances, 100 more abstained, but the rest (122) joined the Tories in passing the government's figures...
...treaty, insisting that most of its opponents "have not even taken the trouble of reading it." The students and their professors, egged on by the Communist-tinged People's Party, stayed away from their classes and planned new demonstrations. Said realistic Assembly President Harmodio Arosemena: "Nobody will vote for the bases when they can look out the window and see 10,000 boys sharpening their knives...
First Chance. After 17 months in office, SEC Chairman James J. Caffrey resigned to go into private law practice, thus gave Republicans their first chance to cast a deciding vote on the make-up of SEC. The commission is now split, two Democrats and two Republicans. The G.O.P. Senate must approve the new presidential appointment...