Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Breaking his campaign silence, President Coolidge made public a letter last week saying that both he and Mrs. Coolidge expected to go home to Northampton, Mass., to vote for Senator William J. Butler and Governor Alvan T. Fuller. Of Senator Butler he said: "He stands on the Senate floor independent, beholden to no one, a Senator of Massachusetts, serving the people in the public interests. His presence there is of great importance to me in my efforts to discharge the duties of my office." Well might President Coolidge break his silence, for Senator Butler's re-election is seriously...
Massachusetts. David Ignatius Walsh, Democrat, v. Senator William M. Butler. Here is a state with more than a million voters, where the difference between the two candidates will probably be less than 20,000 ballots. Onetime (1914-15) Governor Walsh, Irish-Catholic, Wet, is the most potent vote-getter in the commonwealth. His strength lies in Boston (outside of Back Bay) and in the large mill towns. Senator Butler echoes "Coolidge and Prosperity," and sounds pleasant to wealthy manufacturers, to rock-bound farmers, to red-brick- and-green-shutter folk from the Berkshire Hills to Cape Cod. Senator Butler...
...question to be debated is: "Resolved, That this house opposes the growing tendency of government to invade the rights of individuals." There are to be no judges, and the decision will be awarded on a vote of the audience...
This news, of such forensic value, was that the Irving Bank & Trust Co. and the American Exchange-Pacific National Bank, both of Manhattan, were merging. Directors approved the move; stockholders will soon vote. Together they have two main offices and 23 branches. Their combined capital is $735,000,000, third in rank after the National City Bank (capital $1,215,033,702 last December) and the Chase National Bank ($1,025,943,818 last February...
...most encouraging tokens in the political situation is the announcement that the 1926 primary vote has broken all previous records in the history of the United States. Not only have senatorial figures been surpassed, but in over twelve states the primary election has been larger than the presidential ballot in 1924. Certainly the nation has awakened, at least temporarily, from its lethargy...