Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This comparative enthusiasm did not mean that Willkie had suddenly captured the Northwest. Many a G.O.P. worker grumbled about Willkie's endorsement of the Federal ballot for soldiers: Was this not another "me too" manifestation? Then there was his New York tax speech: Did that mean that he wanted to go twice as far as the New Deal...
...recent months Field had listened less to Evans and more to outsiders who wanted the Sun to get in there and scrap with Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick's archconservative Tribune. Fortnight ago, after Evans' financial columnist, pompous Philip S. Hanna, had labeled the federal ballot for soldiers "a trick to dodge the Constitution," Hanna was summarily fired by Field...
Everybody knew where Rankin stood, which was four-square against a federal ballot for soldiers, eight-square against the Administration, and, of course, 16-square in favor of the poll-tax, white supremacy, and Southern womanhood. John Rankin, master old-fashioned orator, counted on his corn to hold the House's attention. He was not wrong...
...Constitutionalist. This was the kind of political oratory that the House ate up. But the big point John Rankin wanted to get across was that he opposed the federal ballot-he called it a "bobtailed monstrosity"-because it was unconstitutional. His voice quavered, and his lean finger pointed toward the skylight as he talked of the Constitution. Nothing else would sway John Rankin. "When my conscience is clear . . . I am not afraid of all the forces of evil, everything from Drew Pearson to PM and back to Wendell Will-ah, Walter Winchell." He closed by reciting the whole of Invictus...
...stand up and be counted on the soldiers' vote bill. Now, as Republican Leader Joe Martin saw that he had the votes, a roll call was ordered, and the House howled down the Administration-backed Worley bill, 224-to-168. Then it passed the Eastland-Rankin state-ballot measure...