Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of the voters who went to the polls on Election Day not only elected public officials, but decided many another question. There were an aggregate of 150 referenda on the ballots in 32 states. Some prime questions which voters answered:
Famed for its early voting is the town of New Ashford, Mass., which has been first in the U. S. to count and report its handful of ballots in every Presidential election since 1916. Such promptness and its attendant national publicity have been carefully fostered for New Ashford by the...
New Ashford's 48 voters get up on Election Day at 5 a. m., troop by lantern light down steep Mt. Greylock to ballot at the district school. This year National Broadcasting Co. arranged to send one of its bullet-nosed transmitter trucks to the scene for a play...
Conceding these arrangements to the enemy, the Eagle quietly stole the whole story by entertaining New Ashford's elecorate at a pre-election turkey supper and square dance Saturday night. Here the loyal New Ashfordites told Editor Miller in confidence how they were going to vote on Election Day...
Seven years ago last week the stockmarket crashed as it had never crashed before, bringing the New Era to a disastrous, disillusioning end. To date the end of Depression was not so easy-regardless of this week's election results (see p. 23). For convenience, however, financial pundits fastened...