Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only direct repudiation of the Coolidge Administration came in Massachusetts where the President's good friend, Senator William M. Butler, was smitten down by David Ignatius Walsh, Democratic Wet, Irish-Catholic. Even in Northampton with the added stimulus of the President and Mrs. Coolidge's personal votes, Senator Butler barely nosed out Senator-elect Walsh by 53 votes. However, the slap at the Administration is somewhat lessened by the well-known, potent vote-getting powers of Mr. Walsh and the colorless conservatism of business-like Senator Butler...
...mothers on the birth of babies; he flattered fathers who had become outstanding figures in their communities. Even Governor Ritchie's mother and his private secretary, and Senator-elect Tydings had their backs slapped by Senator Weller's "personal" letters. These must have produced laughs rather than votes for Mr. Weller, who made no stump speeches. (On the Senate floor he has scarcely opened his mouth except to vote...
...political pow-wow on the night before election to "bring out the vote," with ts sputtering red fires and Roman candles, its brass bands, its raucous boys beating garbage cans, its stout old men parading with signs hitched crazily to curtain rods, was once a fundamental U. S. institution. Now only Tammany Hall and lower Manhattan indulge in it heavily...
...Danville, Ill., Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, 90, one-time famed Speaker of the House, was unable to vote last week for the first time since 1860 when he cast his ballot for Abraham Lincoln. In Brooklyn three other Lincoln voters (one of them blind) went to the polls, voted for modification of the Volstead Act. ([ Montcalm County, Mich., has its heroine-Mrs. Ileea M. Henkel, onetime schoolteacher, wife of the former sheriff who was fatally wounded while arresting a drunk. She was appointed to serve her husband's unexpired term and conducted a vigorous war on the liquor...
...There are 25,000 U. S. citizens in Paris. Consul General Orr went to the U. S. polling booths on the Boulevard des Italiens at the close of election day, opened the ballot box, found therein one vote, counted it, despatched it across the Atlantic...