Word: election
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course there is a little inconsistency in you and me and the majority of the American people. We are human. We still elect Republican Representatives and Senators and Governors. We don't want Mr. Roosevelt's associates in our states, counties and villages. We feel safer with people who know enough not to take their coats off in the rain...
Russia's ramifying political influence, which caused the resignation of Iran's Premier Said last week, also forced out the Foreign Minister and President-elect of Switzerland - Marcel Pilet-Golaz...
...easy inference was that P.A.C. had helped mightily to re-elect Roosevelt. But this conclusion would need close analysis when the final results were in. Increasing the vote in Democratic cities did not necessarily mean improving Roosevelt's prospects for victory. In New York City, for example, incomplete returns gave Roosevelt almost 61.6% of the vote, but in 1940 he got over...
...Washington have passed a lot of excellent laws about social security and labor and farm relief and soil conservation. . . . Those same quarrelsome, tired old men, they have built the greatest military machine the world has ever known, which is fighting its way to victory, and they say, if you elect us we promise not to change any of that. . . .' They also say, in effect: Those inefficient and worn-out crackpots have really begun to lay the foundations of a lasting world peace. If you elect us we will not change any of that, either. But,' they whisper...
...nation tensely waiting the result for perhaps a whole month, almost hoped for a landslide either way. The drama of such a situation would have only two parallels in the last 75 years-the night of Nov. 7, 1916, when Charles Evans Hughes went to bed a President-elect, and awoke to defeat; and the Hayes-Tilden election of 1876, which was not settled until the House of Representatives decided in favor of Hayes on March 2, 1877, 115 days after the election...