Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unanimous re-election of Col. Stewart as a director, by the Indiana Standard stockholders. Stockholder John D. Rockefeller Jr. cast no vote, but offered no censure. Col. Stewart's fellow directors immediately re-elected him as their chairman. Explaining his neutrality, Mr. Rockefeller announced that he was still "seeking the facts . . . and will take such steps in the matter as he thinks proper. Since more than 50,000 other stockholders of the Indiana Company are involved, it is obvious that Mr. Rockefeller must not act precipitately...
Said cheerful Charles Voight: "For the life of me, I can't see how any man who served in the War can vote...
...present delegate system is hardly an expression of true democracy. The men who will represent Massachusetts in the coming Republican convention, for example, have no idea whom they will vote for. They pay their own railroad fare to get to the Convention and they will east their vote so as to get the best possible return from it. The delegation should really be a group of errand boys who have been delegated to vote a certain way by the people of the state, and who will do it. If you were to take a poll of a deaf and dumb...
...developed in 1920 may yet be repeated in 1928. You remember that at that time, after much wrangling, Harding, a practically unknown politician was nominated. Then in the interim between the convention and the election, a reputation was brewed up for him. A great many, of course, will always vote the straight Republican or Democratic ticket because their fathers did before them, and the party leaders are rarely disappointed in counting heavily on this group. Of course if a Harding is preferred to a Hoover, well . . ." The governor shrugged his shoulders sug- gestively, leaving the conclusion to the imagination...
Curtis seldom takes the floor in Congress, and then chiefly to make a point of order, remind his colleagues that they have strayed far from the matter theoretically under discussion, call for a vote, or move an adjournment. His legislative efforts, if they can be called legislative efforts, are chiefly of a domestic nature. In the last session of Congress he introduced seventy-six bills. Sixty-nine of them were pension bills. Five were bills to settle private claims. One was a bill to provide an Indian memorial at Medicine Lodge, Kansas. And the other was a bill to create...