Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second of these acts which it is now proposed to repeal. We are not asked to vote on a proposal to repeal the first, which forbids the sale or exposure for sale of all intoxicating liquors. Even if the proposed repeal is carried, that first act will remain in force. It will be as illegal even according to our state law, to sell liquor or expose it for sale as it is now. Anyone who sells liquor in Massachusetts will still be a bootlegger even according to state...
...liquor trucks on their way from Canada or the Cape. This would simply make it easier for the bootleggers to get supplies of liquor to sell in defiance of state as well as federal law. They who want to see things made easier for the bootlegger will, of course, vote for repeal. They who do not, should at least think it over...
...stabilizing the U. S. financial structure than to Europe's. It was in this capacity that President Hoover asked him to go down for two of the post-stock-crash Confidence Conferences. Mr. Young went, of course. He has never refused Herbert Hoover anything except, in 1928, his vote. He would hate to refuse Herbert Hoover anything and Mr. Hoover knows it. Regardless of what the Democrats do to make or unmake Mr. Young as presidential timber, it is unlikely that President Hoover needs to worry. He is probably the last Republican, as a person and as a type...
...hour last week when Mr. Gandhi, attended by ascetic gentlemen in white loin cloths and lean ladies in pink girdles, squatted down cross-legged on the rostrum and announced that the executive committee of the Congress had adopted unanimously his draft Declaration of Independence and would put it to vote after suitable debate. As the debate began, the weather turned bitter cold. Mr. Gandhi drew a piece of cloth over his shoulders and sat quiet, knitting something woolen...
...operation of Standard properties. The reorganization represented the amicable settlement of a dispute which had arisen between Byllesby & Co. and Standard's common stockholders. Byllesby's control of the System lay in its ownership of a special issue of 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock which carried a vote with every share. Through United States Electric Power Corp., a utility investment company organized by Harris, Forbes and its associates, the Harris, Forbes group had secured large holdings in Standard's common, but the Byllesby voting preferred still carried the control. The gist of the reorganization agreed to last week...