Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Referring to Mr. Angus Hibbard's letter (TIME, July 12), I cast my vote unreservedly in favor of the continuance of your editorial notes. Where's the bad taste...
...openly wagered their public offices on the outcome of the election, she to resign as Governess if she failed to beat him by a single vote-he to relinquish his Attorney-Generalship if she beat...
...unopposed for the Democratic nomination. Against him the Republicans will probably nominate (in the primaries August 10) Governor Adam McMullen. The political recrudescence of the brother* of the "Great Commoner" depends a good deal on the Nebraska weather. If the present drought continues, "Charley" Bryan should poll a large vote; if rain comes and the crops are good, then the farmers will probably be satisfied with the Republican règime. Mr. Bryan points to the economy when he was governor-how he reduced the taxes one-third, how he forced down the price of gasoline, how his State Coal...
Seven Democrats and three Republicans can tell their constituents (as well as their children, grandchildren, etc.) that they had perfect attendance records in the House during the first session of the 69th Congress. These Representatives never missed a roll call, whether for a quorum or a vote: Cannon,† Missouri; Green, Florida; Hill, Washington; Huddleston, Alabama; Quin and Rankin, Mississippi; Swank, Oklahoma, Democrats; McLaughlin and Mapes, Michigan; Miller, Washington, Republicans...
...Jungle stretches southwest out of the business section. Here are factories, dirty alleys, frame hovels and a population of Negroes and foreign-born toilers who cluster at eventide in Greek restaurants and poolrooms. Here, for 25 years, Jumbo Crowley held sway, sending his cosmopolitan children to the polls to vote as he thought best; dispensing protection, advice or instructions, to henchmen in whose doings he never was implicated-until lately, when he was arrested for directing certain alcohol operations, and since when- they say-he has completely reformed...