Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: An investigator in the deep South met an oldtimer and asked him a few questions: "Did you vote for President Roosevelt in 1932?" "Yes." "Did you vote for him in 1936?" "Yes." "If he is nominated in 1940 will you vote for him?" "Of course I will- but let me tell you something, mister, if the damn Yankees up North don't quit voting the Democratic ticket they're going to ruin this country!" SCOTT SNODGRASS San Angelo...
Lawyer Henry entered both Republican and Democratic primaries, announcing that if he won both he would run for whichever party gave him the higher vote. (Wisconsin law provides that candidates cannot run under two labels.) This proposal angered both regular party organizations because it meant depriving one of them of a place on the ballot. The Republican organization put up Milwaukee Manufacturer Julius Heil. Democratic chieftains and the State New Deal machine got behind young Jerome Fox, who resigned his job as an HOLC attorney to make the race as a Roosevelt man. Coalitionist Henry, no New Dealer and deeming...
...hurricane that hit Massachusetts last week (see p. 11) was only slightly more surprising to its citizens than the results of the Democratic primary vote for Governor, cast the day before. Beaten by Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. for the Senate two years ago, beaten last year in a try for a fourth term as Mayor of Boston, James Michael Curley was supposed to be "all washed up." But political weathermen knew that Governor Charles F. Hurley, since he succeeded Mr. Curley in the State House two years ago, had been exercising an unusual talent for repelling people and making enemies...
Immediately Leary issued a statement berating the voters for electing him. Then he demanded a recount "to cause trouble and annoyance and teach people not to vote for him ever again...
...exactly three centuries ago that the College opened, and the first Freshman Class matriculated. The College was founded by a vote of the General Court in the fall of 1636; but owing to an Indian war and a female agitator the actual opening was delayed almost two years. Early in 1638 the Board of Overseers purchased for the College a house and yard in "Cow-yard Row", where the natives of the "Newetown" parked their cattle at night. When the name of Newetown was changed to Cambridge, the citizens were so pleased that they granted the College a slice...