Word: voter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late as last summer sanguine political theorists were confident that this fall's election would give democracy an opportunity to show its mettle. At last, after decades of shilly-shallying on unimportant artificial issues, there would be a chance for the voter to express his opinion definitely on an inclusive and yet clear-cut issue. He could support or attack the New Deal, he could give or withhold his approval of the Democratic philosophy of government, as evidenced by the Roosevelt administration. That hope has been blasted. There will be little such rational voting today...
...bribery--it is legal, of course; but none the less the arrangement has the ear-marks of bribery--on the part of the Democratic Party to catch the votes of the needy. The resources of the United States Treasury are sufficient to make the purse of many a voter heavier. And who would expect someone receiving money from the HOLC, CWA, or any other alphabetical combination to vote against a New Dealer. There is something quite doubtful in the ethics of allowing those on Federal relief to vote in Federal elections. Of course Mr. Roosevelt would no more point this...
...tried to persuade onetime Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley to make the race. Dapper and dashing Republican Hurley claims Oklahoma as his political stamping ground but he has lived so long across the Potomac from his Washington law office that he is now eligible to become a Virginia voter. But neither Mr. Hurley nor any other Virginian worth a hoot would make the race. So the Republicans gave up. Mr. Byrd will go back to the Senate for six more years, not by election but by default...
...present case, however, the answer to the principal question on the ballot indicating whether or not the voter is sympathetic to the Roosevelt policies so far, may lead to some ambiguity in interpreting the results. The policies of the Roosevelt regime have been so far-reaching in scope that they have affected practically all contemporary fields of human endeavor, including the social, economic, and political. Hence, the diversity of opinion with which the New Deal has so far been received and which makes it all but impossible to express unqualified approval or disapproval of its methods. The liberal...
Thus did Mayor Dore dramatize his tax cuts while restoring the city's credit. But last week morals were more important in Seattle than money. Besides, Mayor Dore had antagonized many a voter with his salary cuts and his loud talk. Therefore the good people of Seattle uprose and replaced him, 4-to-3, with Charles Lou Smith...