Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spring Seaman Curran was the leader of the "outlaw" seamen's strike in New York Harbor which failed to win higher wages but caused serious harbor hubbub for three months (TIME, May 25 et seq.). Last week 1,000 members of his insurgent Seamen's Defense Committee voted a strike in Manhattan, delayed several ships from sailing. Night later, 1,000 members of the International Seamen's Union pack-jammed Cooper Union, heard their officers refuse to strike. One read a telegram which he said was from Harry Bridges, warning that an Atlantic strike would only delay...
...campaign of 1936. One was the emergence of the Social Security Act as a prime issue. Capitalizing their belated discovery that the 1% tax on wages which goes into effect next January to begin a sinking fund of some $40,000,000,000 for workers' annuities was a vote getter for Republicans (TIME, Nov. 2), Governor Landon and his cohorts hammered it home, while Franklin Roosevelt & friends cried "Shame," "Falsehood," "Coercion...
...Wilma Hoyal (women's division chief of the Republican National Committee) : Look at Spain and vote like Maine...
John Roosevelt (aged 20): Some people wonder why I am interested in seeing my father reelected. I can't vote, but I have got to the point where I believe his policies will make a better world for me to live...
There will be lots of other changes if Roosevelt sets up a dictatorship. The seven voters of a place called Millsfield, New Hampshire, won't have to get out of bed in the middle of the night to vote five-to-two for Landon and beat New Ashford, Mass., as the first precinct to be heard from. Nor will there be that phony voting machine in Troy, New York, which since time immemorial has broken down at ten o'clock election morning to show in all its nakedness twelve Republican and eighty-four Democratic votes. There...