Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With unaccustomed patience, Bob Taft waited out two days of Democratic infighting. In the end, even many Democrats approved the bill, which was sent to the House, by a 77-to-10 vote. House Democrats took another futile try at the Barkley amendment. Finally, 102 of them (and New York's Party-line Vito Marcantonio) lined up with 178 Republicans to pass the bill. Triumphantly, Bob Taft declared: "The President has power today to check nearly all of the principal causes of inflation if he really wishes to do so." This was taken by most Washingtonians in the partisan...
...Energy Commission held its first meeting since September. It set up a control committee to go ahead with the '"majority plan" (the U.S. plan), blueprinting the structure and operations of an international control body, even down to financing. Russia's Andrei Gromyko, the deadpan diplomat, did not vote against this project, but he scorned it. Since Russia's current line is to do nothing and to blame the U.S. for the fact that nothing is done, Gromyko did not want people to get the idea that the AEC was gaining ground...
...campaign has been partly successful. Last summer, with a brief discussion and a 196-to-133 vote, the House approved statehood for Hawaii. Next month the Senate will send Oregon's Guy Cordon to make another one of several congressional on-the-spot investigations. When the Senate takes a vote in its regular session next year, democracy will get an acid test. But it will be the mainland's democracy which gets the test. For Hawaii is the most democratic area under the U.S. flag...
...many, the victory of 63-year-old Novelist Gallegos was not as significant as the orderly manner of his election. The government of Provisional President Romulo Betancourt, confident of Acción Democrática,'s strength, had taken pains to make the voting fair, and even the opposition was hard put to find grounds for charging fraud. Previous presidents had been chosen by Congress. Gallegos was elected by direct popular ballot, and every Venezuelan over 18 had the right to vote...
...prompted him to send his treaty to Congress last week was his strong new political position. A year ago he ruled with Communist support. Now he had ditched the Commies, won other friends in Congress. Yet as champions of cheap food for the masses, the Communists would have to vote for his treaty. The president of the Santiago stock exchange now backed the deal, too. González reckoned that he had votes enough to make...