Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Horner would carry downstate by a huge majority no one doubted. His managers claimed his downstate majority would roll up to 300,000, but the question was whether 300,000 votes, or any majority from downstate, could match the Chicago machine's efficient vote-making equipment. Dispassionate observers believed that the machine could count 300,000 votes by the "endless chain system'" alone. This device requires the theft of only one blank ballot by each precinct captain and absolutely insures that all votes bought are delivered. The blank ballot is marked and given to a hired voter...
Wooing Problem, Finished with an "election" in which the loss of even one per cent of the vote was surprising. Adolf Hitler last week turned back to the difficult international front where the Locarno Powers were waiting for him to make amends for his remilitarization of the Rhineland. In the glass and steel elegance of the Reichskanzler Palace on the Wilhelmstrasse, the Realmleader summoned his foreign policy favorites: Special Ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop, Foreign Minister Baron Constantin Neurath, Nazi Foreign Affairs Expert Alfred Rosenberg. Germany's problem: to woo Great Britain away from France and split the Locarno Powers...
Despite last fortnight's dummy vote of 99% the world last week wanted to know how many Germans Adolf Hitler really represents in his world dealings. Certain it is that the German lower middle class is solidly behind him. Furtive opposition honeycombs the workers whose trades-unions have been destroyed, the aristocracy (excluding the Army), the upper middle class, 6,000,000 pre-Hitler Communists and the professions. Many of these have joined the Storm Troops for protective coloration, shout "Heil Hitler!" with the rest. In the Nation, U. S. Leftist magazine, Louis Fischer reported the widespread opposition...
...utterly inconsequential resolution by Ellen C. Wilkinson, author of Why War?, calling on the Government to pay women the same salaries as men in the lower grades of the Civil Service. In the course of the desultory debate, M. P.'s indebted to the women's vote and reluctant to sponsor openly the Government's thesis that British women in the Civil Service are already better paid than other British women, quietly sneaked out of the House. The alert leader of the Labor Opposition, Major Clement R. Attlee, did a little quick counting, called for a vote...
...last of a series of preliminary debates, the Freshmen last night upset an Andover team at the Union, by a vote...