Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roosevelt carried 25 states including California and Illinois by one vote each: New York and Massachusetts by large majorities. Landon carried 14 States including Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania...
There was a tie vote in 6 states and no vote in three others. Out of a total of 775 men who voted, only 374 signified their intension to go to the polls on Election...
...them a telegram from Republican Chairman Hamilton. It announced that arrangements had been made for him to speak in Los Angeles this week. Startled at this sudden change of plans, wondering if it was caused by new hope of California since Dr. Townsend advised his followers in California to vote for Landon (TIME, Oct. 19), newshawks asked why he was going...
...right,' the brother replied, 'Vote for Landon. You've got Republican blood...
Polling New York City and State, the New York News fortnight ago reported that 10,771 people approached by News representatives at home and in the street were going to vote for Franklin Roosevelt Nov. 3 as compared with 6,775 who favored Alf Landon for President. Same day the Literary Digest's national Presidential straw vote revealed that in New York State 99,228 voters, telephone-subscribers and club members were for Landon, 34,120 for Roosevelt. When he saw this discrepancy, the News's energetic Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson summoned an editor...