Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Herald figures also showed that the South, leading the mortality rate for automobile deaths with 20 or more per 10,000 cars headed the vote for safety measures. In general the Northeast, last in fatalities, stood last in reform support...
Your presentment of facts is such that if I had known them in just that light my vote, too, would have been...
...knowledge of finance on the long road of borrowing that lay ahead. A descendant of Thomas Jefferson but only the remotest kin, if any, to Calvin Coolidge, "Jeff" Coolidge, despite his staid New England background, qualified for service in the New Deal by his independence in politics, by his vote for Roosevelt in 1932. In the Treasury his job was figuring out the terms on which new loans should be floated, bonds refunded, a highly technical task of gauging the delicate appetite of the money market for Government securities. That he did a good job Washington last week agreed. That...
They say that the Republicans are looking for a mediocre man for Presidential candidate. The idea is not to antagonize any of the anti-Roosevelt voters in the country, whether they be radicals, or conservatives, or merely honest. The electorate will undoubtedly vote against the New Deal, rather than for a constructive alternative, in the next election, just as the last one was swung by those who were voting against the depression. So that it seems wise not to nominate any extraordinary individual who will deflect attention from the main issue of the campaign onto his own ideas and personality...
...Willis Dodds told the Liberals to choose between Gomez and his opponent, Carlos Manuel de la Cruz. They chose Gomez. Menocal tore his beard indignantly. Dr. Dodds thereupon drew up the final electoral code (TIME, Dec. 16). New factor was that Cuba's pious, conservative women had the vote for the first time. Meanwhile, unwilling to accept the responsibility of either holding or postponing the election, provisional President Carlos Mendieta resigned his job to his meek Secretary of State Jose A. Barnet y Vina-gres (TIME, Dec. 23). Of all the dozen "sectors" and their might-have-been candidates...