Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those who take this hint to be working out alternative plans to those of the President. The people whom he tried to aid in the A.A.A. and the Guffey Coal Bill and the N.R.A. will not respond to violent denunciations of the law; they will rise up and vote for sounder and better-drafted measures. Likewise is it futile to roar "Communism" and "Fascism" when additions to the Supreme Court are mentioned. An effective opposition must prove to the public that the broad interpretation of the Constitution is not needed as quickly as the President thinks. In his own metaphor...
...days before Republican Nominee Landon was to deliver his bid for the farm vote at Des Moines last September, Democratic Nominee Roosevelt made headlines by announcing that he had appointed a committee headed by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace to work out a plan of crop insurance. Up from Topeka rose realistic howls of pain and rage as Landon handlers claimed the President was stealing their man's stuff. Snatching it from his forthcoming speech, they rushed the Landon crop insurance program to the press: "I believe that the question of crop insurance should be given the fullest attention" (TIME...
...Manhattan last week Nevil Monroe Hopkins excitedly announced that voting by radio was closer to realization than ever. Three years ago this tall, grey electrical engineer, who gets wide-eyed and trembly-voiced when his enthusiasm mounts, described his invention which he thought would enable radio listeners to signal at once to the broadcaster the fact that they were listening, and whether they liked or disliked what they heard (TIME, April 2, 1934). Radio sets would be provided with three buttons marked "Present" (tuned to the station taking the vote), "Yes" and "No." Each button would close a circuit through...
...Newark's station WOR. Rather than manufacture and install a large number of Hopkins radiovoting attachments, a crude equivalent was resorted to. Listeners were asked to switch on an extra 40-watt bulb in the house when WOR's announcer gave the signal for a vote. The resultant bulge on the powerhouse chart showed that about 6,100 listeners had thus balloted...
...chair-man and biggest stockholder is John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, was apparently expressing no more than a pious hope. Only a few days before he released his report the people of Texas in the persons of the committee on revenue & taxation in the lower house of the Texas Legislature voted 11-to-6 to boost the sulphur tax from $1.03 to $2. To the dismay of Freeport and Texas Gulf witnesses and pleaders on the scene, the committee came within one vote of amending the bill to make...