Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Valuable as the political clubs may be in bringing the campaign to the college for a short time every fourth fall, they give no solid assistance to the college man baffled by his first voting opportunity, Really to cast one's vote intelligently, one should follow party issues from far before the time that they become mere political slogans. Enthusiastic attendance at last minute discussions and oratorical contests is hardly sufficient to acquaint the average college listener with the bewildering vibrations of the political shuttle-cock as it bounces from farm relief to prohibition, from water power control...
...Anti-Saloon League published in The American Issue, its official organ, an editorial entitled "America's Strangest Political Campaign." Nominee Smith was described as representing "the sporty, jazz and liberal element of our population." The editorial also said: "If you believe in Anglo-Saxon Protestant domination. . . . you will vote for Hoover rather than Smith. . . . The Anglo-Saxon Protestants, working through both parties, have dominated America and made it what it is today-a world leader...
...bill will empower the Grand Council and subordinate Fascist organizations to draw up the one and only list of candidates for Parliament which will be submitted to the electorate. Italian voters may then approve or reject the entire list by a simple majority vote of "yes" or "no," but with no chance to vote for or against individual candidates. Rejection of the entire list is considered outside the realm of practical politics, and the new system amounts to a scheme for maintaining Fascismo permanently in Power...
...they are not to keep silent, what are they to do? "The plain duty of every churchman is to work and pray and vote for the election of Herbert Hoover...
Baptists. Strictly interpreted, the statement of the "officially appointed agencies on temperance and law enforcement of the Northern Baptist Convention" was routine, coming from temperance and enforcement workers of the church. It asked all good Baptists to vote against Smith, for Hoover (TIME, Sept. 24). But no such statement has routine effect in a presidential campaign; such statements are read with avidity, especially by the 1,250,000 persons who are represented in the convention...