Word: voter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the microphone would encourage fluent hypocrisy at the expense of floundering soundness were silenced-along with many of the House's most agile speakers. Some of the House's lamest orators were triumphantly reelected. To champions of parliamentary broadcasting, this seemed proof that the New Zealand voter was capable of being educated without being entranced...
...bear major responsibility for the new bill-and as one who hopes to get a bill by Christmas-Senator George now spoke up for the sales tax, main quick source of revenue yet untapped. With the Administration so far violently opposed to the sales tax, which would clip every voter exactly when it hurt most, this now loomed as the tax issue of the year. The public got ready for a battle that might out-rumble the Ruml Plan fight of last session...
...Democratic brush? Captain Joseph Patterson's New York Daily News, bitter Willkie foe, relentlessly tells its 2,000,000 daily readers that Willkie was once a "Tammany Democrat." Willkie opponents within the G.O.P. sneer at his One-Worldliness as an imitation of Henry Wallace. Many a plain G.O.P. voter wonders from time to time...
Platinum-haired Paul Vories McNutt, boss of WMC, who manfully stepped aside in 1940 to bow to the will of the master. His liability: by 1944 his necessary rulings on manpower very probably will have infuriated every voter strong enough to go to the polls. His assets: he took Washington's toughest wartime job without audible grumbling; he has always been popular with practical politicians...
Since the number of ballots a voter could cast in La Prensa's poll was limited only by the number of copies of La Prensa he could get his hands on, the poll had a somewhat dubious quality. But since ballot-box stuffing was general for all contestants, the poll did represent a rude cross section of New York City's Latin American opinion. And that opinion (with some 200,000 Spanish-speaking inhabitants, New York is the biggest Latin city north of the Tropic of Cancer) is undoubtedly passionately informed...