Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the President: > Said a good word for Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, for whose third Antarctic Expedition, still in progress, the House last month refused to vote an additional $250,000 (voted last year: $340,000). Unless Congress reconsiders, the President tutted, 50-odd Byrdmen may be left high & cold in the Antarctic without their Admiral, who last week was headed home on the flagship Bear...
Last week the Senate: > Finishing fighting over Cordell Hull's authority to negotiate trade agreements (TIME, April 8), downed a final attempt to limit extension to one instead of three years, sent the bill unamended to President Roosevelt. Final vote...
...majority of those answering the poll did not approve of allowing American materials to be sold to any country at war, they went on record as approving legislation making them available to the so-called democratic countries, 54.3 per cent wanted the Constitution changed to require a national vote before Congress could draft men for overseas service...
...Coach Tom Bolles, a member of the committee on the East-West race, does not know whether it will be possible. It seems that the question still hangs upon the matter of whether the body at Washington University which decides such things will be able to vote the crew enough money to send it East...
...between politics and mobs was in practice intricate and devious, but Raymond & Thompson give a useful diagram of the mechanism. Founded on Tammany use of hoodlums and floaters to get out the vote and win elections in the 23 assembly districts of Manhattan, the mechanism involved Tammany gratitude to these instruments. Tammany gratitude was partially expressed through mayor-appointed magistrates-a tie-up very shocking to good people when the Seabury investigation brought it out in 1930-31. Judge Seabury's recommendation-that the appointment of magistrates be removed from politics-has never been followed...