Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...means of settlement of some disputes. Several amendments would be necessary to embody the new principle completely, and these will all be drafted and circulated; but one of these will be selected as the key one for debating the principle. After the amendment has been debated, a vote will be taken...
...Chinese University Debating Council defeated the Harvard speakers when: "Resolved, That this house views with approval the immediate abolition of Extra-territoriality by China" was debated at Ford Hall in Boston last night, the University taking the negative side of the question. The decision was the result of a vote, made by members of the audience, who were three to one in favor of the winning team...
According to an announcement made yesterday at University Hall; two members of the faculty have been granted leaves of absence by vote of the corporation. Dr. D. L. Edsell, Dean of the Medical School, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry and Dean of the School of Public Health, has been granted a leave of absence from May 1, 1930, to Commencement, and for the first half of the academic year 1930-31. Dr. Edsell will use his sabbatical in travel and research abroad...
Nobody expected the Judiciary Committee with its 19 Drys and four Wets to approve any of these measures, much less Congress, 75% dry, to vote any sort of change as a result of the hearings. Their significance lay in the fact that they were the first hearings that the Drys had ever given the Wets in the House since Prohibition. Heretofore Wet legislation has been smothered under parliamentary silence. What caused the change this time was the threat of the Wets to set up an unofficial committee of their own in the capitol and hold mock hearings on Prohibition changes...
...Party, the Democrats, the Communists began to object, criticize. But when Finance Minister Paul Moldenhauer gravely announced that if the match agreement were not ratified, the Reichstag exchequer would face a deficit of 273,000,000 marks by July, the delegates hastened to approve the agreement by a vote of 240 to 145. So lusty are the Swedish Match finances that Lee, Higginson & Co., Manhattan bankers for the company, thought it might well carry through its $125,000,000 loan without any borrowing on this side of the Atlantic...