Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposal was defeated earlier in the evening, but when it came up for second vote it was given a simple majority. Since Council rules require a two-thirds majority, it was left for final settlement until next Monday...
After only two days' debate, the House voted 271-1 for the huge bill. The one dissenting vote was cast by Manhattan's hot-eyed Representative Vito Marcantonio, who talks a lot about U.S. aggression and not at all of Russian aggression...
...Cannon blast apparently had no influence on the House, one way or the other; it was just a low-order expression in an isolationist side street. When the vote came, the House refused to boost the Navy's air appropriations and rolled through the full $15.9 billion appropriation unchanged...
Bromides? The program promised significant concessions to catch the vote of the middle-class housewife. "The voice of the consumer," it proclaimed, "must ring out with strength and emphasis." Above all, Labor rediscovered competition. In a section headed "Encouragement for Enterprise," it called for "development" of competition and the continued "fruitful partnership" between public and private industry and the state...
...Radcliffe dormitories will boost the Annex freshmen's drive to collect $1000 in three weeks. The freshmen want to bring a DP to study in Cambridge next year. They received Dean's Office approval for the move this week, and an okay from the dorm students in an informal vote last night...