Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unable to advocate the election of Franklin Roosevelt openly, Red Browder has throughout the campaign done the next best thing: told voters that the election of the Republican Nominee would be a catastrophe. Said he last week in answer to an inquiring comrade: "Advise everybody to vote Communist and if they won't take your advice, tell them that the worst possible thing they can do is to vote for Landon...
...Lemke last week hopped about like a winged knight on a chessboard, spent one day in Utah, the next in Idaho, the next in Washington, the next in Wyo ming, the next in Nebraska, the next in Iowa, the next in Michigan, the next in Ohio. Greatest third-party vote in recent years was that for the late great Robert Marion La Follette in 1924 when that Wisconsin Senator came within an ace of polling 5,000,000 ballots. Though Unionist Lemke really cannot hope to equal that record, he does, on the basis of straw polls, expect to outstrip...
...rally should be concluded by 10 o'clock. The campaign, of course, will not be officially over until Tuesday, but after the rally, the spectacular events will be over, and the work remaining will be mainly of the routine organization work, with the emphasis on getting "out the vote...
Washington Shows Largest Vote...
Even the vehement anti-New Deal sentiment in Detroit failed to shake the University of Detroit's 906 to 222 vote for Roosevelt. The University of Washington, in Scattle, showed the largest vote of all, of which 2253 balots went for the Democrats and 1562 for the Republicans...