Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unhappy (for this newspaper) returns of the next day showed that, while the town had given Landon 32 votes and Roosevelt 12 in the straw, which roughly tallied with the town's professed political inclination, the legal vote on the dawn of election morning showed 26 votes for Landon, 19 for Roosevelt...
...wholly averse to such a change. In Chicago last week Mills Novelty Co., manufacturer of automatic vending and gambling machines, announced it would boost the pay of its 2,600 employes enough to compensate for the 1% pay-envelope tax. Said Fred H. Mills: "Following the tremendous vote of confidence given the President by the nation, we are sure that business is going to improve considerably. We believe that our company will be more able to bear the added burden of the tax on wages than our employes and we are, therefore, absorbing their share. We think that our workers...
...first press conference after returning to Washington as President-elect, President Roosevelt last week read to newshawks the several electoral vote predictions he had written down and put away in his safe...
...things made Franklin Roosevelt's guesses look much more conservative than they were. One was that the ratio of the electoral vote to the popular vote was more lopsided than usual. Governor Landon polled only 1½% of the electoral vote but he polled about 37½% of the popular vote, scarcely 5% less than the number with which Woodrow Wilson was elected in 1912, nearly 9% more than John W. Davis polled in 1924, over 3% more than James M. Cox & Franklin D. Roosevelt polled when they got 127 electoral votes...
Second reason for Franklin Roosevelt's bad guessing, and the bad guessing of almost every straw poll, was that a big block of citizens who do not ordinarily vote turned out at this election. Instead of 31% or 32% of the population voting, as in the last two elections, some 36% voted last week. Most of these, millions of normally silent votes apparently went to the New Deal, with the result that Franklin Roosevelt piled up 60.4% of the popular vote. The extent of this upset was not evident even after the greater part of the ballots were counted...