Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME'S mention of attempt of Berkshire Eagle to ascertain vote of New Ashford 18 hours before opening of polls by means of straw ballot distributed to all 48 registered voters of the village (TIME, Oct. 9), should like to ask Literary Digest's Funk what he does for red face...
...summer. Student at Baldwin University in Ohio Northern Indiana Normal School, he taught science during intervening years in order to continue school. In 1883 he received a law degree from Valparaiso University, but had to teach another year to pass law library. He was one of the senators to vote against America's entry in the war. Republican in name only he threw aside partisanship years ago, supported Al Smith and Roosevelt, thrust his seamed face and jutting jaw and untrammeled thinking into making a fight like that over the purchase of Muscle School. "My College," he says, "had been...
Conceding these arrangements to the enemy, the Eagle quietly stole the whole story by entertaining New Ashford's elecorate at a pre-election turkey supper and square dance Saturday night. Here the loyal New Ashfordites told Editor Miller in confidence how they were going to vote on Election Day. The story was kept under cover till 15 hours before the opening of the polls, then "broken" in the Eagle and simultaneously sent to the 1,350 members of the Associated Press. Score: Landon, 32; Roosevelt, 12; Aiken, 1; not voting for President, 3. Featured voter: Miss Phoebe Jordan...
...this year's profit they will pass on to stockholders to avoid the levy, running as high as 27% on earnings retained in the business. Last week in Chicago the directors of Sears, Roebuck & Co. made their decision. After marking the company's 50th anniversary by voting a special $1,500,000 "Jubilee" wage bonus, the Sears board declared a $1.75 extra dividend representing an estimated one-half of the year's profits not needed for the $2 Sears regular. In December, when full-year figures can be estimated more closely, the directors will meet again, probably...
Politics again, George H. Tinkham, the Republican Congressman from the local Democratic district went back into office by carrying his district with 13,000 votes more than President Roosevelt got. Mr. Tinkham has whiskers, has held his seat since 1915, and has never yet made a campaign. This year he got back from Europe the day before the election. Probably he didn't bother to vote for himself. Of course he is a Harvard...