Word: polled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
President Hoover had taken the precaution to poll most of Congress by telephone and telegraph last June on his Moratorium. He knew 68 Senators, 276 Congressmen were already pledged to legalize the postponement of $246,000,000 owed the U. S. this year, too many to make the opposition of such men as Speaker Garner in the House and California's Hiram Johnson in the Senate really threatening. But the Democratic House had no intention of speeding up its machinery to give the President the law he wanted in a hurry. He had refused to call a special session...
...result of the Senior Class Elections held yesterday and the day before, John DeQuedville Briggs Jr. of St. Paul, Minnesota, was elected Permanent Class Secretary. Briggs, a former president of the CRIMSON, was winner in a close election, the deciding margin being one of six votes. The total poll at the election was 258 votes, which is about a dozen less than the total of last year's elections...
...undersigned, registered (poll tax) voters of Texas, ask you to give an account of Texas' junior senator, Tom Connally...
...pragmatic Dictator Kemal passed the petition to Angora officials who ignored it, but a rich & pious Turk bestowed on Petitioner Ali a disused house on Turkey's famed Golden Horn (a dirty stretch of water flanked by palaces and woods). Last week Mehmed Ali Bey scratched his woolly poll and complained to a U. S. correspondent: "Neither I nor my wife nor my children can find good jobs in Turkey. Sure we've got jobs, but they are no good. I even had to sell my dictionary. My sons are digging sewers. My daughters are cooks. Me? Well...
...Firemen, Conductors, Trainmen-with 17 smaller rail groups. Their membership blankets the U. S. and Canada. First move to reduce the Brotherhood pay scale came last month in Canada where Canadian National and Canadian Pacific began negotiating directly with their employes for a voluntary wage cut. Last week the poll of C. N. and C. P. workers still remained untabulated. Upon its result largely depended the attitude of Brotherhood men in the U. S. toward pay cuts...