Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...echoes from outside began to reecho in Congress. Maryland's Senator Tydings cried that members who voted to go home should be kept there by their constituents. "I couldn't vote for myself if I ran away from duty at this time," declared Arizona's sesquipedalian Senator Ashurst. Sam Rayburn heard much of the same from his colleagues in the House, growled that "a great many of them, if there was a secret ballot, would vote to adjourn. ..." First sign that Congress' public sense of duty might prevail sprang from an even greater phenomenon: a fear...
levied on its members for a war chest in its battle with C. I. 0.; 2) surrender of the A. F. of L. hierarchy's right to expel member unions without a vote of the delegates; 3) clean-out of racketeers in A. F. of L.'s ranks. Mr. Green, with the smell of I. A. T. S. E. cigar smoke still in his clothes, considered, agreed to the first two, hedged on the third. At week's end, valiant Mr. Dubinsky led the garment workers back anyway, deciding apparently that he could fight for his third...
...denounced Representative Howard Smith's Wagner Act amendments with great vigor. Last week he proposed a horse trade: if Howard Smith would accept four A. F. of L. amendments, the Federation would support the rest of the Smith Bill. Virginia's Smith gladly agreed, got a handsome vote (258-10-129) for the hybrid...
With but a few days left before convention time, no Republican candidate had the 501 votes necessary for nomination on the first ballot. Hopefuls Taft & Dewey, with almost equal delegate strength, were far ahead of their rivals, even after discounting their supporters' exaggerated claims. First ballot vote claimed for Dewey: 400-450 (probable vote: about 300); first ballot vote claimed for Taft: 390 (probable vote: about 250). Still uncommitted, or thoroughly divided among twelve favorite sons and dark-horse candidates-were the remaining 450 votes...
...forum opened when an unreconstructed Springfield Republican, William Bell Chilton, told a hostile audience: "I wouldn't vote for anybody for a third term, with the exception of Jesus Christ." Mrs. G. A. Crotts, a Nashville housewife, answered sharply: "I want Roosevelt for a third term, a fourth term or as many terms as he wants." Then she ran the gamut of Presidential possibilities, called Dewey "a little two-for-a-nickel lawyer," Taft "the perpetual whiner of the Senate and No. 1 bore," Willkie "head of the Southern Power Corporation when the companies robbed the few people able...