Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First move, however, is up to the Council, which will decide tonight whether the two-to-one vote in favor of the wheat conservation plan merits further stress...
Explosive Bob. After hours of boiling argument, the showdown came. Vandenberg prevailed; the amendment was defeated by a vote of 56 to 30. But the Republican high command was split wide open. Only the majority leader, Maine's feeble old Wallace H. White Jr., was on Vandenberg's side. Arrayed against him were the G.O.P. whip, Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry; Minnesota's Joe Ball, once a red-hot internationalist who now decried efforts to rush the aid bill through as "a combination of blitzkrieg and the old mousetrap play"; and, most important of all, Bob Taft...
...decide that the minority vote is sufficiently large to prevent projected curbing of wheat consumption in dining halls...
Absentees May Vote...
Although the group of educators is called the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, the unanimous vote indicates a sentiment that primarily stems from the schools, and only partly and hesitantly from the colleges. The denounced ruling is irritating solely to secondary schools in their attempt to place students in colleges...