Word: precinct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dearborn, Mich, the home precinct of Hooverite Henry Ford, who failed to register, went for Hoover 403-to-221. But Dearborn as a whole went to Roosevelt...
...only six States faithful to the man who carried 40 States four years ago. Before the eyes of the blackboard watchers the vote of all the rest of the country mounted up & up against Herbert Hoover-even New Jersey, even Michigan, even Ohio, even Postmaster General Brown's precinct in Ohio, even Charles Curtis' Kansas, even his own California, by a thumping plurality that was running close to 300,000 when, at 9:17 p. m., its native son acknowledged that the country had rejected him and telegraphed to his opponent. Herbert Hoover had likened his campaign...
...week blatant, bellicose Senator Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long reached a new pinnacle of power when Louisiana Democrats at their primary retired Senator Broussard. Long foe, and nominated in his place Representative Overton, Long friend. With Louisiana in his pocket Senator Long announced that he was through with ''precinct brawls" and was now going to the country at large to campaign for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. On the stump the Long theme song will be: "Rid America of Multimillionaires...
...hard traditions are often those which are of questionable value, Mr. Reinhard long ago left the Harvard precinct but his name lingers on and seems to be growing in acclaim by the Yard...
...mass there last week. Alfred Emanuel Smith, refreshed and jovial after the elections (see p. 16), attended the services with Mrs. Smith; also many another Tammany politician. Tammany Hall is less than a mile from the church and numerous Manhattan politicians were born, baptized, educated and confirmed in its precinct. But the Church of the Immaculate Conception s less proud of its Tammany association than of its holy record. Forty-three of its boys have become priests, 72 ol its girls nuns...