Word: voter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With both parties successfully evading positive stand on any really controversial issue by the familiar "red herring" method, party loyalty and convictions are reduced to mere habits of voting. Perhaps if the, voters were able to force the issue on a burning question such as Prohibition there would be less cant and hypocrisy in the party in power, and elections would be something more than personal mud-slinging contests. The present American party system is the most ingenious yet devised to obscure any question of vital interest to the voter. It is no wonder that politics as a vocation...
...Congress: He is known as an independent voter, a violent partisan, a dogged fighter, the Senate's wealthiest member. He is most famed for his fiscal feud with Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon. He did not like the 1924 tax bill, wrote the Secretary so, was infuriated by a snippy reply from a Department subordinate. He put through the Senate a resolution to investigate the Bureau of Internal Revenue. This Bureau retaliated by reopening an old tax case against him and all minority Ford stockholders who had sold their shares. The Bureau charged the Senator owed...
...Democrat, by a 30,000 majority to succeed Senator Arthur Robinson Gould, who did not run for reelection. The State also returned a solid Republican delegation to the House of Representatives. Republican Governor William Tudor Gardiner was reelected by some 16,000 votes over Edward C. Moran Jr., Democrat. Voter apathy was large; issues were small...
Pennsylvania. In a climactic frenzy Secretary of Labor James John Davis and Senator Joseph Ridgway Grundy worked toward the May 20 primary which would give one of them the Republican senatorial nomination. Friends of Senator Grundy moved to have Secretary Davis' name stricken from the list of voters in Pittsburgh on the ground that he was appointed to the Cabinet in 1921 as a resident of Illinois; and that, since then, he has not lived one year in Pennsylvania as the law requires. Secretary Davis has been registering as a voter from the residence of one of his Loyal Order...
Perhaps the only indefinite section of the questionnaire is that in which the voter may conceal various sins from dislike of alcoholic beverages to difficulty in striking a bargain with the local bootleggers under the guise of "Personal Taste". Such a situation is will nigh unavoidable and it is of secondary importance anyway. The major virtue of the ballot lies into its adaptability to various types of colleges, a fact illustrated by the adoption of its essential simplicity by many of the newspapers cooperating in the conducting of polls elsewhere...