Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democratic Senators are almost certain to back Bilbo, right or wrong, the question of how to unseat The Man will devolve on the Senate's 51 Republicans. Their problem: whether to refuse Bilbo a seat on charges that his election was "irregular" (which would take only a majority vote), or seat and then attempt to oust him on charges of "moral turpitude" (which would require a two-thirds vote...
...desire for an immediate showdown vote on the U.S. plan for atomic control, Bernard Baruch last week found a majority of the twelve nations in the U.N.'s Atomic Energy Commission against him. Thereupon, after months of inflexible diplomacy, he made his first concession...
...last, Baruch accepted a Canadian amendment to send the report back to a working committee with instructions to pay due heed to the U.S. "principles," but to bring the phrasing into harmony with the Assembly's disarmament resolution-a document which does not mention punishment or vetoes. The vote in favor was 10-to-0. Poland abstained; Russia's Gromyko did not even "abstain"-in the technical sense. He simply said: "I am not taking part in this discussion." This was a walkout lacking only the physical act, a sort of sitdown walkout...
...vote in favor was unanimous. Three months ago Russia had vetoed a similar proposal; this time, although Russia's Andrei Gromyko again brandished the veto, he failed to throw it. The U.N. Assembly which closed in triumph last fortnight had advised the big powers to use the veto with restraint. Last week they were doing...
...doctors over. On his side were the prestigious Royal College of Physicians, a majority of medical men in the military services, and most low-income medicos. To reassure opponents, the bill left open to negotiation the key questions of pay and terms of employment under the plan (the B.M.A. vote was on the question of whether to enter such negotiations). To sweeten a provision most obnoxious to doctors-a ban on the sale of practices-Bevan set up a $266,000,000 fund for payments to physicians at retirement or death...