Word: caste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...registrations were the rule, however, even without parrots and dead men. The Associated Press reported a total registration of 43,084,257 for the whole U.S., about four-fifths of the eligible population. A vote of 37 millions was predicted, or an increase of eight millions over the votes cast...
...subscribers preserve this copy of TIME. On Election Day, having cast their votes, taken their holiday, dined and turned on their radios, let them use the blanks below for predictions, wagers or alert tabulation. There are 531 electoral votes. It takes 266 to elect...
...Samuel J. Tilden had a clear majority of the popular vote cast in 1876. and a majority of the electoral vote until the honest result was nullified by the infamous report made by a 'returned board' manipulated by the Republican national administration...
...accurate index of the opinion of the voters at large. In New York City, for instance, where ballots were mailed to all registered voters, the Digest poll shows a majority for Smith of 35,000 votes in a total of over 240,000. These votes were cast by persons, 112,000 of whom report that they supported the Republican ticket in 1924 while only 83,000 admit having supported the Democratic ticket at that election. If this were a fair sample of the voters of New York, it would follow that the city was strongly. Republican four years...
...hundred fifty four Harvard students cast ballots in College Humor's first college straw vote, the balloting being divided, Hoover 99, Smith 55, according to a statement from that magazine released yesterday...