Word: voter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...primary, the voter must mark eight choices, and in the election, three. The ballots will be invalid if they do not contain the required number of choices. The voting will be held in the Union during luncheon and dinner. Any Freshman who registered at the first of the year, and still is in the College, is eligible to vote...
...question: "Shall there be a convention to revise the Constitution and amend the same?" In 1916, with the failure of the previous year fresh in mind, the electorate voted No. Last week, 20 years having elapsed, the question again appeared on every New York ballot. Rare was the voter who knew why it was there. It was not mentioned in any political platform. Candidates generally ignored it in their speeches. No civic agency seemed greatly interested in its passage or defeat. Nevertheless, when the ballots were counted it was found that millions of yea-saying New Yorkers had voted...
Brewers' Banner. The rising tide of champagne did not mean ebb tide for beer. Last week The American Brewer estimated the 1936 U. S. consumption at 53,000,000 bbls., enough to give each voter in last week's election 388 bottles. Best since Repeal, 1936 is no banner beer year. In 1914, nickel beer enabled U. S. brewers to sell 66,933,394 bbls., an all-time high...
...vote on Election Day. The story was kept under cover till 15 hours before the opening of the polls, then "broken" in the Eagle and simultaneously sent to the 1,350 members of the Associated Press. Score: Landon, 32; Roosevelt, 12; Aiken, 1; not voting for President, 3. Featured voter: Miss Phoebe Jordan who announced that she was switching from the GOP to plump for Roosevelt...
...total of the two big systems and their smaller competitors will probably be between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000. It will not be surprising if the Republican expenditures for the entire campaign run over $7,500,000, if Democratic expenditures run about $5,000,000. Many a voter may feel that this is a lot of money to spend on a campaign. It is spent, however, to pick a President who will last four years, a Congress which will last two years. But the total cost of the campaign for both major parties would...