Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some 2,500,000 Negroes, of whom over 1,000,000 are prospective voters this year. Moreover, in these same nine States the Roosevelt-Landon battle will be waged especially hard, with the result in each perhaps turning in favor of the party which can bag the largest Black vote...
This year, for the first time in history, Democrats are making a serious bid for the Negro vote everywhere in the U. S. except the South. For nearly 70 years all Negroes were Republicans because Republican Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves in battle and blood. But today slavery, in the form of political gratitude, is paying the GOP steadily diminishing returns, and Lincoln's name, by itself, no longer works its oldtime magic...
These practicalities of politics were undertaken by Bosses Farley and Hamilton as if the Negro were no different from any other racial group in the U. S. electorate. With each of them a vote was a vote and neither was publicly concerned with the volcanoes of prejudice and emotion behind their activities. Both were aware that local machines in the North can give Negroes a semblance of political equality without running into social difficulties. In large cities where the Negro population is packed together in a small area, few whites even have to do business with minor Negro jobholders...
...Wars, et al. To head this committee he appointed fat, jovial Louis Arthur ("Louie") Johnson, onetime (1932-33) National Commander of the American Legion. Legionary Johnson is also an Elk, a Shriner, a Mason and an Odd Fellow, all of which sodalities consider him a "regular fellow," a potential vote-getter...
Aside from a one-day trip to his home in Independence to vote in the Kansas primary, Alf M. Landon's chief interest last week was the Drought which Secretary of Agriculture Wallace gloomily admitted is now the worst in U. S. history. Since by the Kansas Constitution Governor Landon could not aid needy farmers with State funds, he set out to make others do the job. Through his efforts. Western railroads cut their fares one-third on hay and one-half on other feed shipped in for starving stock. The Santa Fe Railroad halved its tariff on water...