Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cabot Lodge is rated far from reactionary and his work as chairman of the House Committee on Labor & Industries has won him Labor's tacit approval. Unless the Democratic machine can keep the name of Senator Coolidge's son-in-law Robert Greenwood off the November ballot as an independent, the Governor will be at a distinct disadvantage. Many an observer of the Massachusetts contest thought that Nominee Curley was more likely to beat himself than Cabot Lodge...
...wore the uniform of an American soldier, sailor or marine, who fails to cast his ballot for one Franklin Delano Roosevelt for President of these United States of America -every day that fellow stays out of an insane asylum he is away from home. Personally, I would walk on my hands & knees from Memphis to Washington, D. C., just for the opportunity of making known, in my very limited way, my admiration, adoration, and adherence to the policies of the World's Greatest Human Being- Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
When North Dakota's bald, freckled Representative William Lemke last June announced simultaneously the birth of the Union Party and his own selection as its candidate for President, Democratic State Chairman David Lawrence of Pennsylvania promptly moved to keep him off that State's ballot by having his henchmen file petitions pre-empting the Union Party name. Last week Candidate Lemke, whose principal backer is radiorating...
Charles E. Coughlin of Royal Oak, Mich, (see p. 61), got on Pennsylvania's ballot anyway when his supporters filed petitions qualifying him as candidate of the "Royal Oak" Party...
...theory that an orator is a statesman than for any other reason. The oratorical type Is the emotional type, expansive, a quick promiser who can diagnose evils and cannot prescribe for them, and of course rarely cures them. The orator has fooled people as an executive ever since the ballot box was invented...