Word: voter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Q. Voter was mad because Congress did not suspend the 40-hour-week law. He was mad because Congress did not stop strikes, did not stop useless Government expenditures, did not ship aid to MacArthur...
According to a standard Argentine wisecrack the Argentine ballot is so secret that even the voter does not know for whom he is voting. But Buenos Aires voters, whatever their sympathies, had no doubt that when the returns came in the Conservatives would have...
...estimates can possibly be made as to the outcome of the election explained Landis last night. The votes will not be all counted up for another ten days at least. But one voter, outside of the Cambridge Fire Station poll yesterday, shouted. "Tell Jim Landis he can shove Plan E . . . I'm voting or Mickey Sullivan...
...Dwyer, personally no Tammanyite, opened his campaign, like a devout boxer who crosses himself before the bell rings, by formally disowning Tammany (see col. j). Unfortunately all his powerful friends looked like Tammany to many a New York City voter: Alfred E. Smith, Bosses Ed Flynn and Frank Kelly, Jim Farley, Christy Sullivan (the nominal Tammany leader). Certainly Tammany considered O'Dwyer its candidate. O'Dwyer tried to take the war issue out of the campaign by seconding the President's foreign policy. But to his ranks flocked Coughlinites, Bundsters, Isolationists, America-Firsters, anti-Semites, Roosevelt-haters...
...Argentina," a cynical politician once said, "we have carried the secret ballot to its logical extreme: it is so secret that not even the voter knows for whom he is voting...