Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House also had a trying week, but had nobody to take it out on. All it had to do was to vote for conscription in an election year, and though conscription was supposedly favored by a great majority of the U. S. electorate, incumbent politicians fear one angry voter more deeply than they are reassured by five satisfied ones...
...politicians," its fate in a House of 435 politicians was sealed. The amendment was adopted 185-to-155. More notable to many a Representative was the sight of Republican National Chairman Joe Martin-not the only Republican more isolationist than his Presidential candidate-striding up to the teller to vote for the amendment beside his bearded fellow Bay Stater, Isolationist George Holden Tinkham...
...Martin did not, as a few anti-conscriptionists at first dared hope, vote against the bill. If he did not line up his colleagues to vote for it, he at least backed up Wendell Willkie by voting for it along with 211 Democrats, 51 Republicans...
...President to one six-year term, to explain their support of a third term for Franklin Roosevelt. They hedged. Rumbled Alben Barkley: "A wise man may change his mind, but a fool never does." Quipped Henry Fountain Ashurst: "I am confronted with such a situation that I must vote . . . for a third-termer rather than a third-rater...
...Mayor James John Walker of New York City, blithe, debonair, and Tammany's greatest vote-getter, swamped his Republican rival by 500,000 votes. The rival was Fiorello Henry LaGuardia. In 1932 Governor Franklin Roosevelt held hearings on Mayor Walker's conduct of his office, during which Mayor Walker resigned. Fiorello LaGuardia, making much of Mayor Walker's misdoings, in due time became New York City's mayor...