-- Senators unanimously approved Thursday the bill of Sen. George Parkhouse of Dallas authorizing establishment of day schools for the deaf in Dallas and the four other largest counties.

Fair Dealer Humphrey upped the ante, asked cloture power for a mere majority of Senators.

He reprised resolutions for constitutional amendments to provide for 1 ) the direct election of the president, rather than by the electoral college, 2 ) the direct election of U. S. Senators, rather than by state legislatures and 3 ) the limiting of judges ' terms to twelve years.

According to the historian David O. Stewart, Cornelius Wendell led an acquittal committee, which met in the Astor House in New York ; it collected a bribery fund of up to $ 150, 000 to influence Senators into voting for Johnson's acquittal.

The Member for Fraser and the ACT Senators also represent the constituents of the Jervis Bay Territory.

After trapping Caesar in Thessaly, the prominent Senators in Pompey's camp began to argue loudly for a more decisive victory.

It met with stronger resistance in the Senate — some Senators objected to the change of name ; Ernest Manning, who argued that the rationale for the change was based on a misperception of the name, and George McIlraith, who did not agree with the manner in which the bill had been passed and urged the government to proceed in a more " dignified way "— but finally passed.

* Classes of United States Senators, for describing the schedules of elections for Senate seats

Senators being appointed for life at this time, these coveted seats rarely went unfilled for a long period of time anywhere in Canada.

In 2005 over 50 reforms were approved, which eliminated some of the remaining undemocratic areas of the text, such as the existence of non-elected Senators ( appointed senators, or senators for life ) and the inability of the President to remove the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.

A diplomatic row with China erupted on 5 May 2005, when President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan arrived for a private visit and was welcomed at a private function at Suva's Sheraton Resort by Vice-President Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi, Ratu Ovini Bokini ( Chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs ), Senate President Taito Waqavakatoga and several other Senators and MPs, and several judges including Chief Justice Daniel Fatiaki.

Even flags flown over the U. S. Capitol for sale to the public through Representatives or Senators are provided in these sizes.

Senators arranged for other tribunes to oppose the reforms.

In 2010, the States assembly agreed to holding elections for all seats on a single date and to cut the number of Senators from 12 to 8.

Elections for Senators and Deputies occur at fixed four-yearly intervals in October.

* 1917 – In a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retires 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire.

* U. S. Senators John McCain and Barbara Boxer honored him on September 17, 2001, in a ceremony for San Francisco Bay Area victims of the attacks, presenting a folded American flag to Paul Holm.

The Senators then fell into another period of decline for the next decade.

After a string of mediocre seasons, a rejuvenated Johnson rebounded in 1924 to win 23 games with the help of his catcher, Muddy Ruel, as the Senators won the American League pennant for the first time in the history of the franchise.

In 1933, Senators owner Clark Griffith returned to the formula that worked for him nine years before, and 26-year-old shortstop Joe Cronin became player-manager.

The American League opposed the move at first, but in 1960 a deal was reached: The Senators would move and would be replaced with an expansion Senators team for 1961.

As the total number of incepting bachelors in 1629 was, according to Masson ( Life, 1:218 ) and n, two hundred fifty-nine, the twenty-four names listed in the ordo senioritatis for that year constitute slightly less than one tenth of the total number of bachelors who then incepted.

`` He is aware he will not live for twenty-four hours if he betrays you ''.

Another was to soak raw beef in vinegar for twenty-four hours, tie it on the wart, and wear it for a week.

Both opioids and amphetamines induce a therapeutic response very quickly, showing results within twenty-four to forty-eight hours ; the therapeutic ratios for both opioids and amphetamines are greater than those of the tricyclic anti-depressants.

Another method is for numbers to be sorted alphabetically as they would be spelled: for example 1776 would be sorted as if spelled out " seventeen seventy-six ", and 24 heures du Mans as if spelled " vingt-quatre ..." ( French for " twenty-four ").

Charles Ammi Cutter ( 1837 – 1903 ), inspired by the decimal classification of his contemporary Melvil Dewey, and with Dewey's initial encouragement, developed his own classification scheme for the Winchester Town Library and then the Boston Athenaeum, at which he served as librarian for twenty-four years.

He would not see Morocco again for twenty-four years.

He briefly reported from Cherbourg and Brest, sailing for Plymouth less than twenty-four hours before the French surrender.

" There were forty-eight strikes in 1936 in which the strikers remained at their jobs for at least one day ; in twenty-two of these work stoppages, involving 34, 565 workers, the strikers stayed inside the plants for more than twenty-four hours.

Elections are held every four years in universal suffrage ( for all citizens above 18 ), with each of the twenty-four constituencies ( see below ) electing one or more representatives ( senators ) to the lower house of RMI ’ s bicameral legislature, the Nitijela.

He was nominated for the Academy Award a total of twenty-four times.

The logo originally had twenty-four stars, as a tribute to the then current system of contracts for actors, since Paramount had twenty-four stars signed at the time.

The dealer, recognizing at once the unusual gifts of the young painter, gave him an order for twenty-four pictures and arranged for three of Tadema's paintings to be shown in London.

In the Irish Free State, the laws allowing for the abdication of Edward as King in Ireland were not passed until the day following each of the other realms, which technically meant that the State had a different monarch for twenty-four hours.

He is known, as well, for the twenty-four symphonies that he composed.

Boards were then mounted back to back for cooling ( see below ) and placed in twenty-four racks containing 72 double-boards.

# Lottery: During the year, the twenty-four priestly watches or divisions rotated through responsibility for conducting the Temple services, one week per watch.

The average Democratic politician, especially in the country districts, is hungry for the spoils of office.

-- And proposals for a whole series of lesser candidate-picking conventions in the state's 38 new Congressional districts.

but the subsequent analysis of characteristics is reported only for the de jure population ( or, in some districts, only the de facto population ).

These schools are intended to provide the facilities and specialized curriculum that would not be possible for very small school districts.

This weakness is not unique to labor surplus areas, for it is inherent in the system of local school districts in this country.

Dr. Melvin W. Barnes, superintendent, said he thought the schools were waiting for some leadership, perhaps on the national level, to make sure that whatever steps of planning they took would `` be more fruitful '', and that he had found that other school districts were not as far along in their planning as this district.

The allotments of the Burghal Hidage represent the creation of administrative districts for the support of the burhs.

In 1818 the British forced the Marathas to cede the city for 50, 000 rupees whereupon it became part of the province of Ajmer-Merwara, which consisted of the districts of Ajmer and Merwara and were physically separated by the territory of the Rajputana Agency.

The Territory is also technically divided into 5 administrative districts ( one for each of the four largest islands, and then a fifth for all other islands ), and into 6 civil registry districts ( three for Tortola, Jost Van Dyke, Virgin Gorda and Anegada ) although these have little practical relevance today.

Bulgaria, which had secured Ottoman recognition of her independence in April 1909 and enjoyed the friendship of Russia, also looked to districts of Ottoman Thrace and Macedonia for expansion.

Districts that do not contain a former borough can apply for a charter in a similar manner to English districts.

The territory is subdivided into sixth districts that are governed by district managers and that have a role as electoral districts and as regional units for statistics.

Each coalition can present two candidates for the two Senate and two lower-chamber seats apportioned to each chamber's electoral districts.

For example, in some districts a contract for deed is an executory contract, while in others it is not.

While it is not called for in the Charter, there is a tradition in Dedham for the Chairmen of the several districts to elect from amongst themselves a chairman.

He is known best for being the namesake of gerrymandering, a process by which electoral districts are drawn with the aim of aiding the party in power, although its initial " g " has softened to from the hard of his name.

Legislation may be initiated by the Council of State, or one of the Eduskunta members, who are elected for a four-year term on the basis of proportional representation through open list multi-member districts.

In May 2005 the Canadian province of British Columbia had a referendum on abolishing single-member district plurality in favour of multi-member districts with the Single Transferable Vote system after the Citizens ' Assembly on Electoral Reform made a recommendation for the reform.