Word: voter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wilson's record had been suspiciously highbrow and severely private: he had written and taught for nearly three decades, spent eight years as Princeton's president, served part of one term as governor of New Jersey. Twelve months before he went to Trenton, probably not one U.S. voter in ten knew much more about him than that he had kicked up some kind of a row on the Princeton campus. William Randolph Hearst scorned him as "the Professor . . . perched on his little hillock of expediency ... a perfect jackrabbit of politics . . . ears erect and nostrils distended . . . ready...
...Council set the limit of ten dollars as the maximum which any candidate or his supporters can spend in electioneering. No stipulation was made as to the manner in which the ten dollars can be spent. "They can swallow goldfish if they think the intelligence of the average voter is low enough to be influenced by that kind of campaigning," said Council chairman Richard G. Axt '46 at the end of the meeting...
Specifically aimed at halting the spread of printed propaganda and the swift distribution of liquid encouragement to voters, the curt regulation draws too fine a line between distasteful electioneering and the honest efforts of candidates to get their ideas before the student body. In their attempt to keep election campaigns within reasonable bounds, the Committee faces the possibility of smothering all attempts at popularizing elections. Freshmen forced to rely on the dope sheets posted in the Union will find their knowledge of the candidates inadequate for intelligent voting. If the Council expects to capitalize on the current interest in extra...
...True & Cruel." It was all over at 7 p.m. Although the results would not be announced until next week, no one doubted that the Government had won an overwhelming victory. Said one voter, recalling the "dead elections" of 1935 under the rightist government of "The Colonels": "That was faked too, but compared to this it was harmless. ... In 1935 the Government did not care whether the people voted or not so long as it retained power. Now the Government has adopted the Russian attitude that everyone must vote for the Government...
...preferential ballot will be used in the House elections, according to the draft, with each voter expressing a first, second, and third choice...