Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tender, as if speaking the epilog of a sad and stirring drama: "And so, quiet falls over the study in Topeka, Kansas." Three hours later the Sunflower Special chuffed out of Topeka on its last trip, taking the Republican Nominee back to his home town of Independence to vote. Some 5,000 of his neighbors were down at the Santa Fe station at 8 a. m. to cheer him, give him a 19-gun salute...
...proper tariff protection," "Stop taking money out of Massachusetts." Two advantages he had: the disgust of decent citizens with the unsavory politics of the Curley regime; the fact that Thomas J. O'Brien, Union Party candidate for Senator as well as Vice President, split Curley's vote. Long-legged Lodge made the most of his chances. He marched into Curley's stronghold, Boston, won it and the State by a plurality that was just about the number of votes O'Brien took from Curley. When he takes the Senate seat now held by Marcus Coolidge...
...little progressive Republican Vito Marcantonio was defeated by a Tammanyman. Making up for the loss of Arizona's Isabella Greenway, retired, Oregon elected another of Eleanor Roosevelt's bridesmaids, Nanny Wood Honeyman, to replace stalwart Republican William Ekwall. In North Dakota, freckled William Lemke, whose Union Party vote for President was piddling, easily topped the field for re-election to his present Republican job as Representative-at-Large...
Michigan. To help make Michigan safe for Democracy, President Roosevelt brought popular, vote-getting Frank Murphy back from his $18,000 job as Philippine High Commissioner to run for the $5,000 Governorship of Michigan. Month ago the redhaired, freckled, dynamic onetime Mayor of Detroit was so worried about his own chances that he got his Presidential patron to tour the State, sing his praises at every station stop. For a time on election night it looked as though Democrat Murphy's fears had been justified, but when the Detroit returns came in it seemed clear that Republican Frank...
...York. Because he had shown himself an even abler New York vote-getter than Franklin Roosevelt in 1932, Herbert Henry Lehman, who urgently desired to return to his banking business, was drafted by the Democratic National Convention and the President himself to run for a third term as Governor. That sacrifice was proved wholly unnecessary when Governor Lehman, though winning handily, ran over 300,000 votes behind his nation-sweeping White House friend...