Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final form, the interim aid bill authorized the Administration to spend up to $597 million this winter. This week, it was approved by both the Senate (by voice vote) and the House (313 to 82). Pending actual appropriations, aid could be started immediately with a loan of $150 million from...
Such oratory did no more than fray congressional tempers. When Michigan's Bartel J. Jonkman proposed that the amount of aid be cut to $290 million, he was routed by a vote of 171 to 78. When Wisconsin's Lawrence Smith, with the backing of Charlie Halleck, proposed a $90 million cut, he could muster only 47 ayes to 147 noes. When Oklahoma's Glen D. Johnson, a heretical Democrat, moved to recommit (and thus kill) the bill, he was howled down. Finally, late one afternoon, Speaker Joe Martin took the entire House by surprise...
...apparent that the Democratic Party is a war party, I will do all I can to see that there is a third party. . . ." He hammered hard at Harry Truman, said that as between Bob Taft and "Truman-of-the-moment," it would be Taft who would get his vote. Next day he took it back; he was just "playing a game of make-believe...
Members of the freshman class voluntarily postponed publication of the '51 Red Book until next fall by a vote of 300 to 25 in a pall conducted by the Freshman Register Board Tuesday. At the same time, the Register, containing pictures of the entire class, went on sale...
Candidates Steven O. Saxe and Richard A. Van Douren, who also ran close to the top eight, concurred with Brockway's demand for a re-vote. But Student Council President Edric A. Weld Jr. '46 definitely ruled out an election before vacation, while declining to make any comment on the possibility of a January ballot until he had checked with the committee in charge of Monday's voting...