Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vote for "the winner" so that next day he could with an easy conscience go to bed as usual for the winter. But there was neither sleep nor astonishment in the eyes of election officials at Hyde Park, N. Y. at 11 a. m. when they handed out ballot No. 312 et seq. to Franklin D. Roosevelt & family. In succession the President, his mother, his wife, his daughter, his son-in-law disappeared into the voting machines and quickly did their duty. Franklin Jr., 21 in August, slipped hastily around the corner to Hyde Park High School to take...
Thus John Nance Garner & wife at the schoolhouse poll near their home election morning. They had started out an hour early by mistake, walked back home to wait, and now Mr. Garner was impatient. He had marked ballot No. 13 with scarcely a glance...
...past, before the development of modern newspaper facilities, conscientious voters often remained in ignorance of the true significance of the ballot they had cast for many hours. The Harvard CRIMSON attempts to avoid recurrence of these mid-Victorian conditions...
...campaign on a thesis all his own : The Government borrows money from the bankers, pays them interest, re-deposits its money with them, borrows it again. "If the Government can do this for the international bankers, why can't it do it for us all?" On the ballot under various titles (Union Party, Union Progressive, Third Party, Royal Oak Party) in 34 States, Nominee Lemke last week hopped about like a winged knight on a chessboard, spent one day in Utah, the next in Idaho, the next in Washington, the next in Wyo ming, the next in Nebraska...
...Rhode Island Birth Control League, to which he lends respectability as the father of seven children. Last week in Springfield, Mass, at a special convention of the Diocese of Western Massachusetts-the one sliced off his father's old see-Son Lawrence was elected on the second ballot to succeed the late Rt. Rev. Thomas Frederick Davies...