Word: voter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...means of increasing the vote in national elections,* New York's Democratic Representative Arthur G. Klein proposed a $30 income-tax deduction for every voter who casts his ballot...
Loss of the five-year-old honor system in exams was the chief reason for balloting against joint finals," Miss Projansky said. One voter wrote on her questionnaire. "Joint exams would take away the most concrete aspects of the honor system, and leave us only the theory...
...before election, the Chicago Sun-Times found a shift to Truman (but did not trust it enough to print it) which indicated a 50.05% victory in Illinois (the actual vote was 50.68%). Said Editor Richard Finnegan: "This has taught us a poll is no good unless it follows the voter right up to the booth...
Swing from Right. Obviously the little old voter liked Democrats better than Republicans. Harry Truman had made his campaign on the record of the "worst Congress in history." Whether or not he accepted that indictment completely, the voter was ready to accept it in part. The Republican-controlled 80th Congress represented a kind of conservatism which he decided he was against...
...swing violently left. Henry Wallace had tried to lead him that way and he had brushed Wallace off with in difference, even with contempt. But it was clear now that Republican conservatism had reached its peak in 1946. The voter had spoken-when he was good & ready-with a flat and incontrovertible voice. The voice announced a new chapter in U.S. politics. Harry Truman was now the absolute boss of a resurgent Democratic Party. Republicans might not be able to stand it. But the Republic could...