Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...July 21, 1949 when the vote came, and the U.S. Senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty. With the vote the formal frontier of U.S. defense leaped across 4,000 miles. It now ran from the windswept tundras of Norway, across the low-lying plains of The Netherlands and Belgium, down the scarred Rhine valley to a dust-hot road barrier outside troubled Trieste...
...chamber was deathly still as the clerk began the roll call. The first, and critical, vote was on the reservation proposed by Senator Wherry, which would insist that the U.S. had no obligation to furnish arms to its new partners. It was defeated, 74 to 21. Two other reservations were knocked down. Then, by a majority of 82 to 13, the Senate approved the North Atlantic Treaty...
Tired Sam Rayburn gave up and waited for a vote. The House buried Charley Brannan's trial-run plan, 222 to 152. Then, with 79 Democrats deserting the Administration, it voted to continue the existing farm parity program for another year...
Trouillas is an untidy, ramshackle village of 1,100 souls in southern France, not far from the Spanish border. Last week the name of Trouillas was heard round the world. By unanimous vote, the town council passed this resolution: "Considering its ardent desire for peace, in the name of the population of Trouillas, the council decides in unanimity to adhere to the world citizens' pact and to the movement created for a universal federation of peoples for the fight against war. We declare the commune of Trouillas world territory...
...dockers, ignoring Attlee's speech and the vote, continued the strike. On Tower Hill, midday crowds gathered in the sun to hear soapbox speakers supporting labor solidarity and the strike. One of them popped out his National Health Service Acts false teeth, held them aloft triumphantly, cried gummily: "I'd never have had a tooth in me head if your fathers and my fathers hadn't stuck tergeth-er in the past for their rights. Solidarity, that's wot did it, and it'll do it again...