Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...logic" of the Robinson nomination was, of course: that he is Dry, Methodist, Southern; that he matches Nominee Curtis for attracting the farm vote; that his nomination was endorsed by most Democratic Senators, potent in their home territories; that his warm, rugged personality and impressive party record bolster the ticket...
...Chamber lobby, last week, and aimed a blow at Deputy Freissineng, who nimbly ducked, remarking: "Merci, mon ami! But today it is too hot to fight." Soon all Deputies trooped in to hear the Prime Minister set forth the policies of his Cabinet and appeal for a general vote of confidence, which, if refused, would mean his fall. With crispness and power, the plump little man, white-bearded, flashing-eyed, set forth his universally known principles and concluded in smashing style: "The sons of France do not fight at the bedside of their sick mother! In the hour of crisis...
...friends (many of whom have since been his enemies) were making themselves popular by making Chicago beautiful. To widen streets and boulevards, they had to buy land. To buy land they had to have it appraised. Instead of paying fixed salaries to the appraisers, they had the City Council vote to pay the appraisers on a percentage basis. Thus, the higher the price fixed by the appraiser on a site, the higher the appraiser's fee. The appraisers, in turn, paid fat sums to the fund with which Thompsonism tried to keep itself in office...
...grandnephew, David Binney Putnam, in exercising the sinew of publishing, publicity. When newsgatherers interviewed Major Putnam upon his return from a visit to England, he was ready for them with alarming news. He had never, he said, formally become a U. S. citizen. He was in the habit of voting in England as well as in the U. S. Further, he had cast his first vote...
Putnam was busy fighting in the Civil War when 21. 2) If England chooses to allow Major Putnam to vote, because he owns property and pays taxes there, that in no way invalidates his U. S. vote. 3) Major Putnam's first vote, at the age of 20, was cast for President Lincoln's reelection, but as Major Putnam was in Libby Prison at the time, his vote was not counted anyway...