Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry Ford: I haven't voted for 20 years, but I am going to vote this time. Vote for Landon. And for Knox. Now, there's a vigorous fellow...
Early election morning, while most voters were still asleep, election officials at Watertown, Wis., rubbed their sleepy eyes. Into the polls waddled 215-lb. Arthur E. ("Turkey") Gehrke to cast his vote for "the winner" so that next day he could with an easy conscience go to bed as usual for the winter. But there was neither sleep nor astonishment in the eyes of election officials at Hyde Park, N. Y. at 11 a. m. when they handed out ballot No. 312 et seq. to Franklin D. Roosevelt & family. In succession the President, his mother, his wife, his daughter...
...Vote by vote he was actually pulling ahead of Alf Landon in Kansas...
...down in the jubilant Democratic headquarters in Manhattan Franklin Roosevelt's political right arm, Jim Farley, was having the greatest triumph of his career, not over the Republicans but over his own staff. In a pool on Roosevelt's electoral vote he had bet on 523, 20 votes more than the next biggest optimist, and so doing...
...major party ballots tabulated by Associated Press, 19,334,959 or 61.83% were for Roosevelt. This proved that the most accurate of all pre-election straw polls was the survey conducted by FORTUNE. In its October issue, FORTUNE indicated that Roosevelt would have 61.73% of the popular vote...