Word: voter
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President Woods thought the utterance was "bad radio," "bad taste," "undemocratic," and said so. So did many an angry voter, who wrote in saying he would vote as he damn well pleased. Woods then ordered his news editors to edit all the Blue's 15 commentators more carefully, reminded them of the long-standing industry rules concerning controversial topics on commercial programs...
Thus Michigan voters were left to decide the election on strictly partisan lines: more than in any other State the result depended on what-in each voter's mind-the labels Republican and Democrat stood for. C.I.O.'s Michigan political machine, strongest in the organization, worked mightily for the Democrats (though some of its leaders personally preferred Kelly). Michigan's traditional G.O.P. strength worked in favor of Ferguson and Kelly...
...Women praying for Prohibition near polling places are blamed by wet leaders for the loss since September of seven Kentucky counties to the drys. (Bourbon-famed Kentucky now has 66 dry counties, 54 wet.) The wets demanded that the vote be thrown out because the praying pickets intimidated the voters. Assistant Attorney General Guy Herdman has ruled against the wets. Said he: "Unless you could establish that praying affected the result, it would not invalidate the election. No voter would be so weak as to admit that these prayers so frightened him as to intimidate him to vote...
...Small wonder that the voter, the consumer, the little man decided there must be something basically wrong with democracy and glanced about the world uneasily for a way out. Author Carr asserts that in the U.S. and Britain the bewildered, apathetic little man has thus far found this way out only in war. "It is useless today," he writes, "to condemn the economic consequences of large-scale war because it is destructive of accumulated wealth. This is not the main consideration, so long as it mitigates the evils of unemployment and inequality. . . . War is at the present time the most...
...maneuvers, dickers, deals and stage-setting. President Roosevelt last week flatly backed earnest, amiable, New Dealing Senator James M. Mead for the Democratic nomination for Governor of New York. Emerging from a White House conference, tall Jim. Mead smiled his toothy smile, happily quoted the President: "I am a voter in New York State, but I am not a delegate to the convention. If I were a delegate to the convention, I would cast my vote for Jim Mead...