Word: precincts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know their address. Many of them did not know the names of the farmers for whom they were working. One of them did not know the name of the town in which he was born, and another did not know how old he was. When asked for their voting precinct, many of them had never voted. General comment was: "I never bother with voting. Why the hell should I? They wouldn't do nothing for me anyway even if I should vote for 'em." There were wisecracks of course, typically Yankee-about the "red tape" of registration...
Tobey: "Your position here is no different than that of the little woman who a few days ago sat in the chair you're now occupying and testified that she had been beaten up and kicked in the stomach three times in a Jersey City precinct when she tried to vote. Get that clear...
...Campaigner. Once he had taken the field. Franklin Roosevelt went campaigning almost as if 1940 were any year, as if the race were any race. His train moved with the exact precision that years of organization and the power of the Presidency command. Every Democratic precinct chief knew exactly when the President would pass, knew just when to have his crowd assembled. First stop was Wilmington, Del., where four years ago the President tipped over the Republicans for the first time in 24 years. The train stopped. A huge station crowd roared expectantly. As always, the President let them wait...
...with all the Democratic Party's professionals in the field as his reporters. Even then his 1936 forecast was very conservative, far below the final results (Hurja said 376 electoral votes for Roosevelt; result: 523). Mr. Hurja afterwards left the New Deal, lost his power to check with precinct committeemen. 2) Mr. Hurja, as a sideline, owns the Edward J. Wall poll, which last week showed Roosevelt ahead in popular vote...
Into the hands of Draft Board 47 in the basement of Phillips Brooks House will fall the fate of 2500 Harvard men. Five volunteer workers from Precinct Two will handle the classification and physical examinations of all those living at our of state addresses, although their local boards will still retain jurisdiction...