Word: worley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...GENE WORLEY House of Representatives Washington...
...smite the President. Only the day before it had refused to stand up and be counted on the soldiers' vote bill. Now, as Republican Leader Joe Martin saw that he had the votes, a roll call was ordered, and the House howled down the Administration-backed Worley bill, 224-to-168. Then it passed the Eastland-Rankin state-ballot measure...
...have scheduled legislative sessions to simplify these procedures. The solution, said the President, is a federal ballot, as provided in the bills sponsored in the Senate by Illinois' Scott Lucas and Rhode Island's Theodore Green, and in the House by Texas' handsome young (29) Eugene Worley, a Navy lieutenant commander who has seen service in the South Pacific...
...Interested Citizen." The Senate heard the President's message out in silence. To most of them this kind of attack was familiar. House Republicans booed the charge of fraud. The President took a deep dig at House procedure. A plan had been laid to bring up the Worley bill under a rule which would let it be shouted down by voice vote, with no recording of yeas & nays. President Roosevelt suggested that every Congressman should be willing to "stand up and be counted" on this vital issue. He said he felt he was within his rights in suggesting this...
...other delegate did not attend.) The guests that were introduced were Lt. (jg) E. A. Juhl who gave us an interesting and humorous poem, Lt. (jg) A. E. Kenison who gave us a professional version of night-club entertainment, also our Oklahoma disbursing Officer, Lt. (jg) L. F. Worley, who drawls so slow that we heard his speech five minutes after he left the platform...