Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wilson failed to carry New York (45) and New Jersey (14), for both of which Governor Smith has a chance. Add 45 and 14 to 207: result 266: Governor Smith is elected without a vote to spare...
Seventeen men sat in a big room arguing. In their hands lay the conduct of all the people living in an area equal to the British Isles and almost as large as Italy. Nine of the 17 voted one way, then one switched, and the vote stood reversed. Then one vote switched again and again the say-so of nine individuals laid a prohibition upon a whole population...
...judge the true value of art is to have a group of laymen vote on it, which is the system selected by E. W. Marland, President of the Marland Oil Co., in determining the best "Pioneer Woman in America," as conceived by twelve competing sculptors, exhibited for the past fortnight at the Reinhardt Galleries in Manhattan...
...cabinet members who had seen Haines at work; it was in all probability decidedly against the desires of the president himself. It means that the administration has placed itself partially under the control of a not too savoury organization. It is proof positive that a partisan organization with sufficient vote-getting power can bully the American government into submission...
...Gladstone, which set principle before party, reform before office, or toward the precedent set by the first President of the United States who intentionally gave up the reins of power at the end of his second term. But it is an insult to the electorate to allow mere vote-getting to be so brazen...