Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thomas B. Love, a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Texas, who said: "As between chronic corruption and acute corruption, I prefer the acute. I want strongly to turn the rascals out, but I am just as strongly opposed to turning Tammany Hall in. I intend definitely to vote against Smith. ... As long as I live I am going to stay in the Democratic party...
Stirred by June headlines to its quadrennial semiconsciousness, the body politic of the U. S.-the so-called "silent vote" which really decides presidential elections -began last fortnight to divide, if not into Republicans and Democrats, at least into Hoover voters and Smith voters. In many an instance the final determination of the individual to vote for Hoover or for Smith will not occur until November. A pretty girl at the polling booth, or an ugly man, or a hangover, a new hat, a spun coin, will be the deciding factor...
Besides the rabble of chance voters, the mass of instinctive voters and the organized ranks of strictly party voters, there will be a limited class of voters to whom it will occur that, while an individual vote is infinitesimal in deciding the outcome, still an individual vote is interesting to cast. Many a voter in this class will plan, this summer, to do some political-historical reading. He will want books that are general and complete rather than specialized treatises on a few eras, issues...
...joined Anna Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt to fight for women's suffrage. She founded the Woman's Peace Society, on nonresistance doctrine formulated by her father and perfected by Russia's Tolstoy. But vote-seeking and international peace gatherings consumed only part of her time and energy. For nearly a half-century she managed the New York Diet Kitchen Association and was active in many another social service body in and about Manhattan. Tireless, vivid, she mounted many a platform in her last years, a majestic old gentlewoman in the kind of hats Queen Victoria liked...
...When the vote to sell was made public last week, a Rotterdam bulletin published a report that "the Shipping Board will be dissolved. . . . Bids received . . . have Deen approved...