Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republicans still maintain a clear majority in the House, but they have been reduced to a margin of one in the Senate, where the fighting will take place. This margin, however, is fictional, for the six insurgents Senators from the Northwest will only vote with the party when it suits their particular interests. In addition to this, Smith and Vare are to be denied their seats for some months pending investigation of charges of corrupt practices, in spite of the fact that the alleged illegalities took place in the primaries and that with these charges known they have been elected...
...that ever held a commission in the A. E. F. would vote for him, but the chance for ever doing so is remote, as his political strength is limited to the banks of Cuyahoga Creek...
...vote could be taken of all the Americans who have sojourned in the Philippine Islands for two years or more during the period of American occupation, I venture the assertion that 90% would agree on certain fundamental points. The temerity and absurdity of shooting a "threeday" opinion in the face of such unanimity is apparent. One Francis Burton Harrison essayed to ignore the opinions of all Americans resident in the Philippines, as well as the written instructions of the Secretary of War, and he found that he had been looking down the wrong end of the telescope. Not only...
...Governor of Oklahoma? According to the last vote and the general impression of people outside of Oklahoma, he is Henry S. Johnston, a slim, long-nosed lawyer-man with dark-rimmed spectacles. Mr. Johnston and his wife moved into an Oklahoma City apartment last January, when Mr. Johnston started functioning at the Governor's desk in the State House...
...publicity given Governor Smith's Statement on the right of the people to organize against Prohibition indicates that this will probably be the only issue of great popular interest in the coming presidential campaign. Senator Borah, in demanding that the subject be brought into the open and voted upon, emphasizes the reluctance of the two major parties to touch the question, and shows confidence in the general belief that the country, however wet in sentiment, will unfailingly give a dry vote. What the opposition needs is a slogan that might convince citizens that the desire for disreputable indulgence...