Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slash in roads appropriations was exactly the reverse. Congress felt somewhat aggrieved in the first place at being left to wrestle with the nation's business while the President went off on a holiday. A request to cut in half an appropriation for such a valuable vote-getting purpose as highway construction looked like advance preparation for blaming Congress, if it failed to approve the cut, in case the 1938-39 budget is not balanced. Nonetheless, by week's end, it was rumored that the Bureau of the Budget was preparing still more drastic means of satisfying...
...members were the first city officials ever to be elected by proportional representation. A few days before, counters in the four other boroughs had finished their share of the job. The preferential ballot is conceived so that if a voter's first choice candidate fails to win, his vote is counted for his second or third choice candidate until the offices up for contest are filled. One of the last candidates to be eliminated in The Bronx was Headmaster Frank S. Hackett of the Riverdale Country School. Exulted defeated Schoolmaster Hackett: "Proportional representation is the greatest advance in democratic...
...Constitution (TIME, Nov. 8) disclosed last week that in nearly every case only one candidate had been nominated for each seat. According to Soviet President Mikhail Kalinin in a speech at Leningrad last week, the average Russian is asking himself: "What is the use of my going to vote? There is only one candidate, and he will be elected anyway...
...consequences of the inflation, the impression was that Hitler would restore the monarchy. A plebiscite held in 1932 would undoubtedly have resulted in a monarchial restoration Dr. Bruening said. But President von Hindenburg refused to permit a plebiscite on the grounds that the crown should not depend on a vote of the people. At present, he added, there is not much hope for a restoration...
...Daughters and Bob Green as ends, Joe Nee and Chuck Klein as guards received honorable mention with one vote...