Word: straws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...economic smash with comparative calm. In 1930 when the Depression was still young the electorate swung strongly away from President Hoover and seated a Democratic House to plague him for the next two years. That was the last nation-wide index of the country's temper until the straw polls this autumn. There have been sporadic outbursts of disorder. At England, Ark. stores were raided. Near the Ford plant at Dearborn four persons were killed in an unemployment disturbance. Twenty thousand Bonuseers, marching to Washington last summer, kept the peace until Congress adjourned and might have stayed peaceful if troops...
...there is a Forgotten Man and if he will not forgive his forgetter, perhaps he will not trust his new champions. On the basis of this year's straw polls, about 1,700,000 protest votes are to be cast for Socialist Norman Thomas. Undoubtedly many an alleged Forgotten Man will, like Henry Ford, have failed to register or is otherwise ineligible to vote. It is also true that the forces against a Change are usually quietest when the likelihood of Change is most imminent. As of last week the election of 1932 looked like a narrower thing than...
...matters little how a man votes: the important thing is why he votes that way. And in reply to Mr. Nolder's delicious bit of sentimentalism, I state my opinion that of the 2000 students who voted in the recent straw vote, not more than 300 had any sound reason for supporting the candidates they did, be those candidates Democratic, Republican, or Socialist. And this is a college which by ability and tradition is better fitted to supply leadership to this country than any other institution in the land. John T. Higgins...
Once again Maurice Chevalier rescues the princess from an overturned carriage, tips his straw hat far to one-side, sings songs which are relayed endlessly by the other members of the cast, and in the end marries the princess, as dukes and dowager queens drop away in dead faints. Maurice is a tailor this time and the princess, Jeanette MacDonald, is only a relic French one. The plot is the usual one and the actor is the same, with the varnish and the pronunciation only slightly marred by rough American usage...
...Roosevelt should have little difficulty in winning the coming Presidential election", said Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President, in an interview yesterday with the CRIMSON. "And I say this in spite of the results of the many straw votes in various colleges throughout the country, particularly at Harvard, which have given Hoover such a large plurality...