Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Should the Democrats lose control of the legislature Republican forces would exert vital power in committee to augment the blocks they could throw at Administration measures on the Congressional floor. In the Upper House, Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, who has consistently inaugurated, sponsored, and voted for measures designed to strangle price- control, would assume chairmanship of the Finance Committee. Behind the padded doors of a committee chamber, Taft would have power to do more than merely east another vote. With a record distinguished by support of the relinquishing of claims on tideland oil, and by his effort...
...even a federal program of hot lunches for school children. His zealous financial pruning stopped, however, when he cast a ballot for the Wood-Rankin Un-American Activities inquisition. Knutson, who might assume leadership of the Ways and Means Committee, did his best for democracy in withdrawing during the vote on the Anti-Poll Tax Bill. Energetic Sol Bloom, a perfect picture of a legislator, would turn over his chairmanship of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the event of a Republican victory to Charles Eaton whose action in the field of foreign affairs extends to support of a measure authorizing...
...becoming current business--put party barriers in even bolder relief. Should the Republicans carry Congress, the clash between administration and legislature would further garble Washington's almost unsolvable political puzzle. The result of this election will mean more than a question on your next Gov. 1b examination. In your vote lies your future...
Both White Russia and Poland vigorously defended the big power vote in the hot Assembly debate in the wake of strong New Zealand charges that the veto system was a "shotgun wedding" forced upon the small nations...
Discussion of both the twin degrees and of the college's standards will appear on many sides and from several quarters before the impending faculty vote. Consistency is imperative, yet rash decision may force the intellectual price of a degree down to firesale levels. Those who would study the problem and the faculty members who must live with it must create order out of the chaos which will lead to the objectives which education has found for itself in a free society...