Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Although there are more Democrats than Republicans (193 to 70, with 274 unattached) they oppose a third term for President Roosevelt by 311 to 136. The vote in 1936 was also opposed to the President...
...runs he will get the Stalinazi vote. . . . Dewey has no program, foreign or domestic, except that little Tommy wants to be President...
...last week had a special significance. First, he proposed to the Senate that the U. S. sell its Army and Navy planes to the Allies (when in the President's judgment these sales do not imperil U. S. defense). The proposal was shelved by a Foreign Relations Committee vote of twelve to one. Mr. Pepper voting alone...
...Voting this year was slightly less than last, the records show. In 1939 the Juniors turned in 547 valid ballots and the Sophomores 483, making a total of 1030; while this year the total vote was 974. Forty-nine of the Junior ballots submitted on Tuesday and Wednesday were either illegible or invalid and 36 Sophomore votes were discarded for the same reason. ELECTION RESULTS Juniors *Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. *Homer D. Peabody, Jr. 220 *Spencer A. Klaw 205 *E. Langdon Burwell 191 *Seth C. Crocker 187 *David D. Henry 179 Robert A. James 164 Joseph P. Lyford 152 Francis...
Following this ensued a discussion on the constitutionality of bringing the matter to a vote, it being considered by some, outside the immediate sphere of the Union. This objection was overruled and the actual debate on the gift came to the floor...