Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...straw vote privately held, last week, among members of the Secretariat of the League of Nations was reported to show an 85% concurrence with the much mooted project of moving the seat of the League to a larger metropolis. Vienna has loomed as the most likely choice, and Chancellor Ignaz Seipel has welcomed the scheme in a statement that he is "not opposed" (TIME, Feb. 27). Last week several League straw voters were reported to have complained that "the atmosphere of a small town [Geneva] is stifling" and that Swiss society at Geneva has not appreciably bestirred itself to welcome...
...symbol of her emancipation woman has agreed voluntarily to cast away. No longer need weary travelling men vacate their habitat before a feminine influx, or harassed deans tear their hair at co-eds who refuse to obey non-smoking regulations; not, that is, if the vote of the National Convention of Sororities means anything...
...Willis boom finally became a hollow frogskin when three other names-Lowden, Curtis, Watson-were given out as unofficial "second choice" men for whom Willis delegates might eventually vote. This made Ohio a microcosm of Republicanism all over the country-Hoover v. the Field. Candidate Dawes had the self-respect to forbid the Willis people to include his name on their auxiliary roster, saying he was still for his friend, Candidate Lowden...
...came to national attention," said the press, "during the Lorimer election to the U. S. Senate in 1909. Four Representatives confessed that they had received $1,000 bribes from Mr. Browne to vote for Lorimer. Mr. Browne was tried twice for bribery but was finally acquitted...
...from Maryland is a subterfuge. Why does he not move to repeal the Volstead Act, if he is in earnest? . . . The law is here and here it will remain. The law will be enforced, irrespective of what Maryland may think about it. ... I am a Wet-I would probably vote for a legitimate motion to repeal, but never ... for any such subterfuge as he now proposes...