Word: voted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trouble you to let me know the answer to the above question, and if Governor Smith did not receive the largest popular vote, except for Mr. Hoover, will you please state who did and what the figures as to the votes were...
Prior to 1928, the greatest popular vote polled by a U.S. Presidential candidate was Harding's 16,152,200 in 1920. Next highest was Coolidge's 15,725,016 in 1924. The 1928 results have not yet been officially rechecked and published. The latest count compiled by Current History shows Hoover 21,409,215, Smith 15,042,366. When a final count of the 1928 popular vote is available, TIME will print it, State by State...
...spite of the ratification of the Sunday Sports amendment by a vote of three to one in the City of Boston, the Common Council has just tabled a resolution to give effect to the mandate of the people as expressed at the polls. In Massachusetts, Blue Laws have always been in style, and the country members of the legislature have until this year succeeded in upholding the morals of the cities at least one day a week. But on November 6, by means of an initiative petition, the people of the state were at last able to declare their will...
...Haskins '08 has been appointed Henry Charles Lee Professor of medieval history, and resigns as Gurney Professor of history and political science, by vote of the President and Fellows of Harvard College, and approved by the Board of Overseers...
...first time at a dinner he gave "soon after his election. Somebody asked me that evening what I thought of Hindenburg. 'I didn't vote for him,' I replied, 'but I find he is a really great...