Word: precinct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With his thousands of national committeemen, State chairmen, State committeemen, county chairmen, county committeemen and precinct leaders lying like fever thermometers under the tongues of the body politic, a national Party chairman is supposed to know the curve of the nation's political temperature well in advance of lay observers. Last week, after consolidating the readings of his executive committeemen at a consultation in Chicago, Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton announced that the national fever chart of Landon enthusiasm showed a slump during August, but was now displaying a hopeful rise. In that revelation...
...American Legion and a Democrat. The firm of Hamilton & O'Neil, with feet in both political camps, did well. In 1934 Partner O'Neil got involved in the War Department supply scandals but Partner Hamilton was not entangled. In politics Hamilton started at the bottom as a precinct captain, for two reasons worked up rapidly: 1) An urge to get on top of the heap, which drives him to work incessantly-he made a house-to-house canvass on foot to win his first election as probate judge in 1920. 2) Adoption by a potent political father, David...
...votes, or any majority from downstate, could match the Chicago machine's efficient vote-making equipment. Dispassionate observers believed that the machine could count 300,000 votes by the "endless chain system'" alone. This device requires the theft of only one blank ballot by each precinct captain and absolutely insures that all votes bought are delivered. The blank ballot is marked and given to a hired voter who puts it in his pocket, takes it into the polling place, receiving another blank as he enters. In the booth he puts the new blank in his pocket, takes...
...Kentucky, tired of claims of dishonest election counts by precinct officials, passed a law requiring that four padlocks be placed on all ballot boxes, that the boxes be carried to county seats and counted there by county election boards on the day following the election. In 1932 that 24-hour delay did not keep anyone in the U. S. from knowing that Franklin D. Roosevelt had been overwhelmingly elected President of the U. S. the day before...
...uniforms and 50 private detectives standing by every entrance were not enough last week for the opening of the Henry Clay Frick art collection on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. Dynamic Miss Helen Clay Frick sent for the bomb squad from police headquarters and a special detail of a precinct captain, a sergeant, and twelve patrolmen. Only then were the doors opened and New York's bluest bloods admitted to a museum to which, in the will of its donor, "the entire public shall forever have access subject only to reasonable regulations...