Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Legislative Council. Why not use the literacy test as a standard for representation? Can illiterates vote in this country? If that is done the Jews will have proper representation...
...pigeonhole year ago, they thought they had safely laid the spectre of $3,000,000,000 worth of greenbacks contained in that prime inflationary measure. Last week the bogey rose again to haunt them after 218 Representatives had signed a petition to discharge the Rules Committee. First by a vote of 220-to-153, then by a chorus of "ayes," the House this week took the two parliamentary steps required to bring the measure to the Floor. Pooh-poohed Speaker Byrns: "The bill has no more chance of passage in the House than anything in the world...
...simply doing a job for Boss Andrew Jackson, who thereby made sure that John Caldwell Calhoun did not get the Vice-Presidential nomination away from Martin Van Buren. The first beneficiary of the two-thirds rule became its first victim. In the 1844 convention Van Buren got a majority vote for the Presidential nomination on the first ballot, could not raise it to two-thirds. Tired delegates compromised on Dark Horse James K. Polk. At Baltimore in 1912 the two-thirds rule changed the history of the world when Champ Clark got a majority on eight ballots, finally lost...
...thirds rule may be abolished at any convention by majority vote. Three days before the Democrats met at Chicago in 1932 James Aloysius Farley, with a majority of delegates sewed up for his candidate, revealed his intention of substituting majority for two-thirds rule. At once opposing factions set up so loud a howl about the poor sportsmanship of changing rules in mid-game that Candidate Roosevelt swiftly backtracked...
Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty, Viscount Monsell of Evesham, rose casually one day last week in the House of Commons and fired what sounded like the starting gun of a gigantic world naval race. Ostensibly he was merely asking the Commons to vote an additional $51,500,000 for 1936 naval expenditures to supplement the $345,000,000 already provided in the Budget. Sobering naval news went with the request...