Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...town's band and drum corps. From St. Cloud, the motorcade, swollen to 250, followed the Senator around Polk County through Davenport, Haines City, Auburndale and Winter Haven to Bartow where Claude Pepper climaxed a typical day by announcing to a crowd of 2,000 that he would vote for the Townsend plan even if the President vetoed...
...time they stop touring next week, will have covered all the towns with over 500 population, in Florida's 67 counties. Driving between towns, diligent Candidate Sholtz makes a practice of stopping at every filling station, general store, to distribute his own campaign literature. Negroes cannot vote in Florida Democratic primaries bub whenever Dave Sholtz spies a white man on one of Florida's long, straight roads, he stops his car, gets out to say: "I'm Dave Sholtz. I want you to vote for me for Senator." It is said he could sell fur boots...
Cracker Boy Wilcox has helped crack many a pet project of Franklin Roosevelt. In the midst of his campaign, he scuttled up to Washington to vote against the Reorganization Plan, claimed personal responsibility for defeating it on the grounds that his reports of local feeling caused four other Representatives to change their votes. In Florida's current political cockfight, Cracker Boy Wilcox's chief distinctions so far have been the facts that: 1) he has only one sound truck to two for each of his opponents; 2) his expenses are thus far listed...
...rate, he seems to have the support of the solidest of Florida's financially solid citizens. Mark Wilcox on Franklin Roosevelt: "President Roosevelt is not God. He is a man just like all of us. He is bound to make mistakes. When he does, I will vote against...
Outcome. Last week, as all three candidates rounded out their efforts, political observers were sure at least next week's balloting would break all State records. This is the first year that Florida voters: 1) have not been required to pay a poll tax, and 2) have had voting machines-which should be an intriguing substitute for the popular slot machines its citizens lost last year. Total vote in 1936 was 320,000; next week it will be about...