Word: precinct
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tentative suggestion has been made that all members of the ARP personnel be provided with identification cards carrying a photograph. Arm-bands are being distributed, but the Precinct Headquarters warns that wardens must carry their certificates at all times...
...personnel will go to the warden of their precinct to get their certificates. Chief Warden for Precinct A is Professor Alden B. Dawson; for Precinct, B. Dean Delmar Leighton; and for Precinct C, Professor Leigh Hoadley...
Reported the august (and sometimes deadpan) New York Times: "Speaking in Tammany Hall to an audience composed almost entirely of precinct workers in the Tammany organization, District Attorney William O'Dwyer [Tammany candidate for Mayor of New York] declared last night his complete independence of political machines and political bosses...
Hired Man. Claude Wickard was growing beyond his own soil. Wickard began working in extension projects, traveling the State, talking to farmers. In Indiana, farm politics and State politics are often the same thing. In 1932 Wickard became Democratic precinct captain. A slim, dark young fellow, Wayne Coy, then publisher of the Delphi Citizen (now rapidly becoming President Roosevelt's No. 1 trouble-shooter), got Wickard's friends to persuade him to run for the State Senate. Wickard...
Democrats of Cedar Falls, Iowa were sorely perplexed. Through a mixup, their printed instructions on how to use the newly-installed voting machines read simply: "Pull the Republican lever." Republicans in one Waterloo, Iowa precinct were equally baffled. Election judges the night before had inadvertently left a sign hanging on the Republican county ticket lever: "Do not touch...