Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Easton, Pa., a Mrs. Francis Gillespie made known that she, her six sisters and three brothers, all children of the late Irish-born Daniel Timony, plus their husbands, wives and 14 children of voting age, would all vote for Smith (34 votes). Next day, a Mrs. Martha Griffiths of Williamstown, Pa., aged 87, announced 87 votes for Hoover-her eleven children, 32 grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren, 33 sons, daughters, grandsons-and granddaughters...
...fisheries, her forests, and her mineral wealth lies in the direction of the United States. . . . The Dominion of Newfoundland is coming around to the idea of choosing to become one of the States. ... At present if a referendum were taken on this subject it would carry by a 75% vote of the whole electorate, not because Newfoundland has forgotten the old flag, but because the tendency of the times is to consider dollars and cents first. . . . Ten per cent of our population are continually going to and coming from the United States...
...blackboards, positive claims were made with caution. At 7:15 p. m. Pacific time, about the moment that Executive Editor Swope of the arch-Democratic New York World was handing a yellow slip to a reporter, conceding the election, the Hoover quotation at Palo Alto was only 206 electoral votes. The total popular vote was even at three million for each nominee...
Down in Oliver Street, where Alfred E. Smith came from, they took the opportunity to vote for a home boy, 610 to 66. It may also have comforted him to know that he had received more actual votes than any man who had ever previously run for President. If his total popular vote should exceed 18,000,000, it would be double John W. Davis' vote in 1924. And most of this he could rightfully attribute to himself rather than to the power of his party or the shrewdness of campaign managers...
Reasons. It could fairly be said that Governor Smith shared honors with the radio in getting out the largest Presidential vote on record. He was the chief attraction if not the leading issue. Why was he voted so far down by all the people? Republican protests to the contrary notwithstanding, the most frequent and forcible Democratic explanations were...