Word: voter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With all due respect to the flaccid corruption innate to this snowy municipality, the recent exposures warrant firm action. Rumor has floated about that a well-known shoe firm is in collusion with the Cambridge city government. They aren't after the voter's cash. These avaricious galoshers are just drooling for undergraduate sacker money; so what do they do, but fix it up with the boys to keep the streets about Harvard full of snow. In fact, trucks of slush from other parts of the town may have been dumped on Mt. Auburn St. late at night. The Liberal...
Republican Hamilton Fish, in whose silk-stocking district along the Hudson River lives a voter named Franklin Delano Roosevelt, asked leave to print in the Congressional Record the words of one of the few private citizens ever to be officially received on the House floor. Said Representative Fish: "Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to place in the Record the letter written by Col. Charles Lindbergh to the President of the U. S." There was not one objection but a deafening chorus of them led by Representative Alfred Lee Bulwinkle of Gastonia. N. C. The Democrats of the House were...
Also voted on was the question of electing a new Reichstag all members of which had been picked by Chancellor Hitler and lumped together on the ballot under a single circle in which the voter could write "Ja." If he wrote anything else or nothing his paper was thrown out as "spoiled." Official score for the new Reichstag: 39,626,647 Jas and 3,348,362 spoiled ballots...
...German ballot boxes are so shaped that each ballot falls flatly into place. Therefore, the Nazi checkers who will dominate all the voting bureaus and who will require each voter to give his name and address before he is allowed to cast a ballot, need merely number each name on the voting list as the ballots are cast. The ballots, it is said, can be extracted and opened in the same order and the names of those who voted 'No' checked on a list...
...into the wind. Naval mechanics found a broken valve spring, had to send to Camden for a new one. The President did some public business with Private Secretary Early, who was aboard the Ellis, received two lobsters from an 87-year-oldster who claimed he was the oldest Democratic voter in Maine, signed a musty old hotel register just below ''U. S. Grant...