Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another straw vote was harvested. Editor & Publisher, trade weekly of journalism, polled the executives of 925 newspapers throughout the U. S. Their composite prediction: Hoover, 16,271,276 popular and 387 electoral votes; Smith, 12,863,936 popular and 126 electoral votes. (126 electoral votes is low; John William Davis got 136 in 1924, James Middleton...
Sending someone to vote in the name of a person known to be out of town. Folding the ballots so that, after they have been cast, they can be read at one peep and quickly "corrected." Concealing pencil-lead under one's finger nails to void ballots by extra marks. Dropping ballots behiA-3 the box instead of through the slot. "The more handling a ballot gets, the surer it is to turn up in favor of the other candidate. . . . And . . . you gotta make sure the ballot boxes are empty before the voting starts. Sometimes...
...despatches significantly announced that prizes have now been taken by a sow and a litter, respectively, hailing from the piggeries of two more Cabinet ministers. The sow appertains to His Majesty's Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Honorable Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, rubicund, jovial and a smart vote getter (see col. 3). The prize litter was called by scurrilous correspondents "Jix's Pride." That is to say, the squealing piglets belong to His Majesty's Secretary of State for Home affairs, Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, tall, pompous, correct, and usually frock-coated...
Settling to business, the Congress soon passed resolutions reaffirming the historic Free Trade policy of British Liberalism, and also re-endorsed the program of agrarian reform which Mr. Lloyd George has been developing for several years past, to catch the farmer vote. Further elaboration of the party platform proceeded monotonously and then David Lloyd George jumped up to make his promised keynote attack on Tory foreign policy. His point of savage attack was, of course, the secret Anglo-French naval agreement concluded by Sir Austen Chamberlain just before his nervous breakdown (TIME...
...visit to America I have always noticed the healthy look of my countrymen. The secret drinking in this country is far worse than moderate open drinking." (President Sir George Syme of the Australian College of Surgeons.) Just a month ago New South Wales, Australian state, on a referendum vote defeated Prohibition four...