Word: voter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sincerity and honesty. Not only has he failed to live up to his campaign promises, but his entire lack of truthfulness with respect to his ill-considered measures has aroused an indignant public. He has concealed material facts concerning the administration and has attempted to sell himself to the voter by misrepresentation and honeyed words...
Skillfully playing upon the average voter's lack of accurate knowledge of national finances, the President stated that he had reduced America's tax rate from 58 to 38 cents out of every dollar. In making this statement he chose to ignore the fourteen different New Deal enactments which levy indirect and hidden taxes. These raise the rate to 68 cents to the dollar; a fact just as well over locked in a Democratic speech...
...fireside chats and his personal charm, President Roosevelt has mesmerized the American voter, so that broken promises, personal insincerity and twisted facts have floated by unnoticed amid a deluge of words and millions of dollars wasted on boondoggling. Half-baked projects and hastily thought out measures have given the President ample opportunity to open the money bags and bribe the voter to pocket his conscience...
...Massachusetts citizens are concerned, the State law holds that an absentee voter is one who is separated by at least two municipalities from the city or town where he is registered...
University Hall will back the student voter, with reservations. In a statement issued yesterday, Dean Hanford announced that absence for balloting purposes on Tuesday, November 3, will be excused only in the cases of men who live in states which do not have authorized absentee voting...