Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...things made Franklin Roosevelt's guesses look much more conservative than they were. One was that the ratio of the electoral vote to the popular vote was more lopsided than usual. Governor Landon polled only 1½% of the electoral vote but he polled about 37½% of the popular vote, scarcely 5% less than the number with which Woodrow Wilson was elected in 1912, nearly 9% more than John W. Davis polled in 1924, over 3% more than James M. Cox & Franklin D. Roosevelt polled when they got 127 electoral votes...
...this election. Instead of 31% or 32% of the population voting, as in the last two elections, some 36% voted last week. Most of these, millions of normally silent votes apparently went to the New Deal, with the result that Franklin Roosevelt piled up 60.4% of the popular vote. The extent of this upset was not evident even after the greater part of the ballots were counted. Several Republican victories and a majority of the close contests turned out, three or four days later, when every last ballot was counted, to be Democratic successes. Result was that the statisticians, having...
International Santa. The No. 1 foreign policy of President Roosevelt, that of the "Good Neighbor," has been interpreted by all Latin American regimes as weakening the restraint upon them of the Monroe Doctrine. In this respect there has never been in Latin America so popular an inhabitant of the White House as Mr. Roosevelt. This week hundreds of newsorgans could be found echoing Noticias Graficas of Buenos Aires: "No one speaks any longer of Yankee Imperialism. The power of the United States no longer causes fear. . . . Mr. Roosevelt's good neighbor policy has surrounded the United States with...
...First Lord of the British Admiralty, dynamic Sir Samuel ("Flying Sam") Hoare, continued last week his series of public speeches, which are proving so popular in the United Kingdom as to build him up handsomely as a candidate to succeed Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Sir Samuel has already cheered Navy-loving Britons by telling them that the battleplane has by no means yet supplanted the battleship. Last week he drew thunderous London cheers with a bristling disparagement of both Fascism and Communism...
NORMANDIE--Between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupation, which is known as the COCKTAIL hour (apologies to HWL.) Every afternoon from 4.30-7.30. Popular Prices Always Prevail...