Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fractions result from some States giving their delegates-at-large a half vote each...
Favorite Son Goff beat Candidate Hoover. It was a preferential primary, leaving the delegates uninstructed, and three of the 19 delegates elected were regarded as Hooverites. But the popular vote stood-Goff 120,337; Hoover, 105,876. The usual comments were made: 1) That the Hoover boom had passed its peak, would now collapse; 2) That the Beaver Man had made a splendid showing...
...amount of work done rather than the kind was evidently what President Coolidge had to admire. Reapportionment of popular representation and disposal of the Boulder Dam bill were the gravest omissions. Disagreement on farm-relief and failure to vote at least some of the Big Navy, after Europe had been made to understand the U. S. really needs more ships, were the gravest embarrassments...
Large significance attached to this resolution, last week, because among the 5,000,000 collectionists represented by the Union Congress many are young housewives, under 30, and these will soon be enabled to vote for the first time, by the confidently expected passage of the Equal Franchise ("Votes For Flappers") Bill (TIME, June 4, et ante). Collective buying thus looms as an appreciable factor in moulding the new Flapper Electorate...
...moderator is Dr. Hugh Kelso Walker, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Los Angeles, a clear thinking moderate, who has never embroiled himself in the Fundamentalist v. Modernist controversy. He beat the Fundamentalist candidate, Dr. J. Ambrose Dunkel of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis, by a vote of 593 to 318. The moderate moderator named a vice moderator to help him in administering the affairs of his church. This was the Rev. Joseph M. Broady of Birmingham...