Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vote as You Please, But-Harry Truman conferred with the leaders who will boss the job: Texas' Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House; Massachusetts' John McCormack, House majority leader; Illinois' Scott Lucas, the new Senate majority leader (see below). Vice President Alben Barkley, from his position as presiding officer of the Senate, would also take an active and commanding part in steering the Truman legislative program...
...Administration's strategy began to emerge. Southern Senators, who had wandered off the reservation, would be told that Harry Truman did not intend to be "vindictive." The Southerners could vote as they pleased, but any effort to thwart the majority's will by filibustering a bill to death (such as an anti-poll-tax measure) would be sternly punished by cutting off federal patronage...
...henceforth the chairman of any House committee which reports a bill will have the right to call up the bill for consideration by the whole House, after the Rules Committee has sat on it for 21 days. Then, the plan was put before the entire House. By a voice vote the changes became...
...authority's council will have 15 votes-three each for the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, and one each for the three Benelux nations. Decision will be reached by majority vote, with no veto...
...Year's Day, Torontonians went to the polls to decide the issue, elect a mayor and council. While only 32% bothered to vote, it was enough to block the two-year term, 73,638 to 46,791. Back in for his second term went moonfaced Mayor Hiram Emerson McCallum...