Word: voter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...facing of grim domestic issues like the Dole. With genial intuition and not too brazenly, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin caused the vote to be taken last week almost solely on a double question of foreign policy. Such was this double question that, however far the British voter might be from comprehending all its implications, the British voter could only answer with a rousing, yet not too rousing, affirmative. The question boiled down to this: Do you want His Majesty's Government to stand at Geneva for what is Right and simultaneously to start rearming Britain against a future...
...bemonocled George II, by the Grace of God King of the Hellenes last week. The Hellenes had voted him back onto the Greek Throne from which they drove him twelve years ago. All Greek elections are conducted with terrorist methods and the latest plebiscite was no exception. As a voter one could drop into the ballot box a blue vote for George II and please General George Kondylis, the Dictator who is bringing him back to Athens, or one could cast a red ballot for the Republic and get roughed up. Some 98% of the ballots were royal blue...
...intuition of Adolf Hitler which let this windy provocation pass, and in Rome the intuition of Benito Mussolini was also working overtime, verbal postures of British electioneers, the pained uproar of Continental editors, and the general Homeric hubbub of last week were vastly flattering to the British voter, made him glow with a feeling that his Government, to create such a stir, must indeed deserve many a ballot. Electioneerings...
Tippecanoe and Tyler too! Remember the Alamo! He kept us out of war! Keep cool with Coolidge! Every man a king! When I was a child, I spake as a child; but someday the American voter will grow up and say, Now that I have become a man I have put away childish things, Someday the American voter may achieve education enough to put more faith in sane words than in same jingoes...
...goes. Generation after generation of American voters, falling for the same old stuff Barnum gave them in the Greatest Show on Earth. There's a sucker born every minute, and at twenty-one he becomes a voter. America is like a bass drum, big and noisy. Step right inside, folks, On with the show...