Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majority Leader, a "yes" man is essential. Where would any Administration's steamroller go if the engineer turned and argued about his orders? For this reason Franklin Roosevelt wrote as he did last summer to "Dear Alben" to swing his election as Senate Leader, by one grudging vote (38-to-37) away from Mississippi's able but too-independent Pat Harrison...
...Episcopal, the New Deal has revived the Christian spirit of America. The man who today sits in the White House is a great Christian. He has chosen me as his first assistant. Now, are you going to let that man down? If there is a God in Heaven your vote will be no! . . . God bless each and every...
...basic appeal is brutually direct. To smalltown bigwigs partial to Barkley he will say straight out, "By God, Jim, you've got to vote for me or I'll make it tough...
Most likely beneficiary of this year's Winrod campaign appears to be colorless Democratic Senator George McGill. If Mr. Winrod wins the Republican nomination and leads what Kansas calls its "Brinkley vote"* through the wilderness, many a disgusted Kansas Republican would vote Democratic in November...
...carpet bagger" born in Ohio, raised in Kansas, he snapped back: "Sure. I moved to Texas 15 years ago . . . because I like Texas and want to live here." Awestruck observers predicted that if he did not get nominated by the required majority, Lee O'Daniel's vote total would be one of the two biggest and put him in the run-off primary. Meantime, Wilbert Lee O'Daniel said soberly: "I don't know whether or not I'll get elected, but, boy! it sure is good for the flour business...