Word: voter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Territory has a provision giving the voter the right to cast an absentee vote, but it does not do much good as the absentee voter must appear before a U. S. Commissioner on a certain date one week before the election date in order to cast the vote. As a rule there are about a hundred miles of rough water separating those Commissioners...
Aside from the battleground of the Middle West, New York State with its forty-seven votes is the most luscious plum in the electoral pie, and Governor Lehman's record is one which should convince any thinking voter to "try try again" with the Republican ticket. For four long years, the Empire State's capital has been infested with a complete, though small-scale New Deal government. Lehman has made of the most powerful state in the union a mere pawn in the hands of his eccentric leader in Washington...
...Wilston, of the Boston City Council and Dorchester, thinks that "if the benefits of a democratic form of government are to be preserved," the way to do it is to make sure that every voter who comes to the polls should be known to election commissioners beforehand. To this end, the incorruptible men in blue, Boston's "finest," will obtain the signature of every prospective voter on a neat card, and the cards will then be salted away to be referred to, perhaps, on election day. This is a step in the right direction but destined to be a fruitless...
...been a single national bank failure in the United States, a fifty-five year record. The many petty mistakes of the New Deal, thrown into Mr. Roosevelt's race by such opponents as Al Smith, cannot make this state of affairs look less attractive to the American voter...
...Deal" were so obvious, and it had been so entirely conceived by the best professional brains of Whitehall, that astonishment was the mood of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin when he discovered that British public opinion considered this a "Dirty Deal," betraying not only Ethiopia but also the British voter who had balloted for honest Stanley Baldwin in the belief that his Siegfried Eden, plus the League of Nations, plus the British Navy were going to bluff Benito Mussolini clean out of Ethiopia...