Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual demonstration of the effects of wood alcohol and other governmental denaturants on the human system. Members squirmed at his account of fatty degeneration of the liver. After three hours of riotous debate, the House refused to change the Treasury's methods of denaturing industrial alcohol, or to vote $300,000,000 for Dry enforcement. It allowed $50,000 for official U. S. Dry propaganda and finally passed the Treasury Appropriation Bill carrying $33,000,000 for enforcement of Prohibition in its eleventh year...
...years Cleveland, the first big U. S. city to try to lift its government above ward politics, has had a City Manager. Three times in the past three years Cleveland has voted to keep City Management. The last vote was in August (TIME, Sept. 2). On that occasion City Manager William Rowland Hopkins breathed a happy sigh, looked out into the night, and declaimed: "The future of Cleveland now seems to lie as straight and clear as yonder moonbeams." Had he been a sterner, less rhapsodical prophet, he would have chosen another simile, for last week, less constant than...
...clerk stopped droning. A little councilman named Walz hopped to his feet, demanded Mr. Hopkins' immediate dismissal. He offered no formal charges. A few letters, mostly favoring Mr. Hopkins, were read. The clerk droned a formula. The vote: for dismissal, 14; against...
...happy sigh, the moonbeam future passed by this vote to Maurice Maschke, Ohio's National Republican Committeeman, Cleveland's cigar-smoking, bridge-playing boss. He himself had put Mr. Hopkins into office, only to become displeased with him, plot his removal. It was not until just before last week's meeting that he was able, after three unsuccessful party caucuses, to assemble another in Room 1050 at the Hollenden Hotel, three blocks from City Hall, to line up the 13 council votes necessary for City Manager Hopkins' removal. To succeed Mr. Hopkins, the Maschke councilmen chose...
...farmer and industrialist alike. What made Mrs. McCormick glum was the discovery of a widespread prejudice against a woman in the Senate. Added this was the covert opposition of many Illinois women to her because of what they considered her politically autocratic manner. Said she: "I hope nobody will vote for me simply "because I am a woman or vote against me solely because I am a woman...