Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...word in Texas last week was that President Roosevelt has picked a baby-kissin', snuff-dippin', vote-gettin' man to replace Mayor Maury Maverick of San Antonio as front man for the New Deal forces working against John Nance Garner on his home base. This snuff-dippin', vote-gettin' man: Railroad Commissioner Gerald Anthony Sadler...
...York Times: "This looks like a big battle. Horace, was a soldier at one time . . . he enlisted with Brutus and "Yon Cassius" and that army lost by a couple of touchdowns at Phillippi. Mark Antony kicked all the points after touchdowns. In fear and trembling, one hesitant vote for Harvard...
...York chums waged war. At a Manhattan County committee meeting of the party, a divisional director of Mr. Quill's union leaped to the platform, with a pack of Communist sympathizers, took over the proceedings. The lights flashed off, on, off again. Amid the hullabaloo the Quillsters voted down the anti-Communist resolution, yelled recriminations at those who objected, elected Leftist Congressman Vito Marcantonio chairman of their rump unit. Mr. Marcantonio declined, but he sideswiped the purgers as actors "playing the role of international statesmen. They should go back to ringing doorbells and climbing stairs...
Twenty years ago the Women's Christian Temperance Union and their fellow fighters had the satisfaction of seeing the U. S., preoccupied with the effects of World War I, vote liquor out. Liquor came in again almost 15 years later, but the W.C.T.U. was only momentarily daunted. Meeting in annual convention in Rochester, N. Y., last week, during World War II, 1,700 temperate Christian delegates heard President Ida B. Wise Smith proclaim that "there is no doubt prohibition will return-the only question is when." The W.C.T.U. wants prohibition or nothing. Says Mrs. Ella Boole, world president...
...wanted their opinions, he said, as to whether he should make public the message he had received. He told them what it was. The Secretaries were variously shocked, disgusted, amused. They split, 5-to-5, on whether to make the information public. The President thereupon cast his own deciding vote, told them he had made up his mind: he would tell the people. Later in the day newspapermen were called in and given a bulletin...