Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME'S mention of attempt of Berkshire Eagle to ascertain vote of New Ashford 18 hours before opening of polls by means of straw ballot distributed to all 48 registered voters of the village (TIME, Oct. 9), should like to ask Literary Digest's Funk what he does for red face...
...elections, some 36% voted last week. Most of these, millions of normally silent votes apparently went to the New Deal, with the result that Franklin Roosevelt piled up 60.4% of the popular vote. The extent of this upset was not evident even after the greater part of the ballots were counted. Several Republican victories and a majority of the close contests turned out, three or four days later, when every last ballot was counted, to be Democratic successes. Result was that the statisticians, having reported that Democrats had elected 26 out of 33 Governors, had two days later to boost...
...polling place, where he was registered as "A. M. Landon, oil and gas business," Alf Landon & wife cast blank ballot after blank ballot for the photographers. On the way to the two-room office with "Alf M. Landon" on the doors of the Citizens National Bank Building, the Nominee had to stop time & again to shake hands with old friends. Most of them called him "Alf" or "Governor," but a few addressed him as "Mr. President...
...Hastings, the New Deal's most bitter Senate critic and head of the Republican Senatorial Committee whose particular job was to win Senate seats throughout the U. S., went down to defeat, partly as the result of a split which resulted in two Republican tickets appearing on the ballot. His seat was won by Democrat James Hurd Hughes, snow-haired, 69-year-oldster who has dabbled most of life in politics and is a mild supporter of the New Deal. Next Republican rubbed out was Senator W. Warren Barbour, big, rich, kinky-haired onetime amateur prizefighter who- four years...
...Ashford's 48 voters get up on Election Day at 5 a. m., troop by lantern light down steep Mt. Greylock to ballot at the district school. This year National Broadcasting Co. arranged to send one of its bullet-nosed transmitter trucks to the scene for a play-by-play description of the voting & counting. That this would dull the brightness of its election morning flash was at once apparent to the Eagle. Editor Lawrence K. Miller sent a newshawk to sleep in the filling station which has New Ashford's one public telephone...