Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think it is unfair and unkind to make such charges against the people of South Carolina who were kind enough to vote...
...Pension convention. Just a few weeks prior, the gaunt, grey doctor had at last driven his Plan to a vote in Congress, had seen it overwhelmed 302-to-97 (TIME, June 12). He now offered his followers to resign as their leader "when you find a superman* to take over the work...
...This activity will be concentrated in the Great Lakes States. ("Why, 75% of the Congressmen west of the Mississippi are for us anyhow!") By election time next year, if he has campaign funds enough, the Doctor expects to have so spread the fear of oldsters that the next Plan vote in Congress will be different. For his radio fund he asked $1,000,000, raised dues to 1½ per day. (Dues last year were 25? monthly, brought in only $153,147.) Secretary-Treasurer Robert C. Townsend (son) reported that the Townsend National Weekly ($2 per annum) finished the year...
...Declined to up income, bank and corporation taxes, vote a State wages & hours bill, reform the antiquated State prison system, regulate professional lobbyists...
...better his chances to wrest the Governorship from the Leche-Maestri-Weiss organization next year. If he runs Senator Noe will have to beat Earl Long, who will have to rumple up both his hair and his personality before he can hope to equal his late brother in vote appeal and administrative aptitude...