Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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If a snowball should refuse to melt in Hell, King Carol of Rumania would be no more surprised than he was last week by the results of Rumania's elections. Any Premier, no matter how unpopular, traditionally wins the election in Rumania if he has the support of the...
Over 1,000,000 citizens of Moscow left their homes one sub-zero day last week, turned out in a driving snowstorm to march across the Red Square shouting "Hurrah for Stalin!" They carried heavy wood & canvas floats and tall banners which they struggled to keep Moscow's wintry...
"Instantly the solemnity is broken. Everybody in the room jumps up and applauds joyously and stormily for the first ballot of the first general secret election under the Stalinist Constitution-a ballot with the name of the Constitution's creator!"
"The result is 100 per cent-100 per cent!" exulted Pravda. "What election in what country for what candidate has given a 100-per cent response?" Soviet officials explained that in Russia, under Stalin's new "Most Democratic Constitution in the World," the urge to vote is so strong...
Several days afterward, when the world press had ceased front-paging the Soviet election, Moscow officials unobtrusively announced that 1,334,124 votes were "scratched"- that is, the name of the Stalinist candidate was struck out by voters. The further official admission was made that "more than 2,000,000...