Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plenty of the rest of us are in just as sore straits but at least we are looking ahead. I know that their imagination doesn't extend beyond the ends of their noses, or at least they would have enough vision to vote for Roosevelt...
...President does not want and does not welcome the vote or support of any individual or group taking orders from alien sources...
Simple was it now for the GOP to point to the Governor's popularity and non-New Dealism, change its tune from "A vote for Brann is a vote for the New Deal" to "A vote for Brann was a vote for Brann." But Republicans would have to talk loud & fast about their impressive clean sweep to convince the nation that Maine had not simply proved itself to be Maine, that Alf M. Landon...
Franklin Roosevelt's face was not slapped by Georgia because about two Democrats out of every three plumped for Senator Russell and the New Deal. In his campaign for Governor two years ago Talmadge carried 156 of Georgia's 159 counties. On last week's electoral vote, which actually did the nominating, he carried only 16. The first political defeat in the earthy, cigar-chewing, gallus-wearing demagog's career, it sounded what most observers regarded as taps for Talmadge. With unwonted dignity Governor Talmadge ruefully declared: "I am in good health, in the prime...
Returning to his column in the New York Herald Tribune after a two-month vacation, Pundit Lippmann, long one of the President's most sympathetic critics, flatly announced: "I am going to vote for Governor Landon." His reason: There are no great issues between the two Parties. Both accept what the Supreme Court has left of the New Deal. But whereas President Roosevelt has unnecessarily alienated the support of Business and established a personal and factional government, Governor Landon, if elected, will be checked by a Democratic Senate, hence forced to constitute a Government of "national union" such...