Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House and Senate, in joint session in the House's chamber, went through the ceremonious anachronism of counting the electoral vote and making the official discovery that Herbert Clark Hoover had been elected President, and Charles Curtis Vice President...
...green days of the Republic, this Constitutional rite was. a solemn thing, freighted with great uncertainty. Last week's vote-counting became an occasion for 40 minutes of horselaughs and whoopee. The outward forms, the ancient lines and cues, seemed as comical to those Congressmen who bothered to attend, as would have been the spectacle of a gentleman in knee breeches and powdered wig riding down Pennsylvania Avenue in a sulky...
...certificate of the electoral vote of the State of Alabama seems to be regular in form and authentic and it appears therefrom that Alfred E. Smith received 12 votes for President and Joseph T. Robinson received 12 votes for Vice President...
...Herbert Hoover, for President, 444 votes; Alfred E. Smith, 87 votes. Charles Curtis, for Vice President, 444 votes, Joseph T. Robinson, 87 votes. This announcement of the state of the vote . . . shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons elected President and Vice President of the United States...
...located said nothing at all. It is from the nonfinancial stretches of Staten Island that this Representative comes. He is Anning S. Prall, a perky, bright-eyed, chest-forward Tammany Democrat. The Manhattan financial section chances to be in Mr. Prall's Eleventh District, but skyscrapers do not vote and Mr. Prall does not "represent" Wall Street any more than he represents the Statue of Liberty which is also within his constituency...