Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Holt had local billboards liberally beplastered with huge posters reading, "Vote for Holt and swim with the flowing tide...
Clever Mr. Lever countered with "Vote for Lever and dam the flowing tide." Lever won the election...
...duty" to file a formal protest. Pointing out that Mrs. Harrison never "shared the burdens of official life with President Harrison" and that both her husbands left her trust funds, Senator Walsh objected: "At a time when millions of our citizens are destitute .. . what justification can be advanced to vote a pension out of the public treasury to one who has ample private means and no vestige of claim for such a public bounty except the slender circumstance that tor a brief period she was married to a man who had once been President...
...opposition vote did not show the extent of the crisis. About 100 M. P.s who normally support the Government abstained from voting. Among them were Anthony Eden himself, Lord Cranborne (Eden's undersecretary who resigned with him) and Eden's prominent Conservative supporter, Winston Churchill. The Cabinet was finally upheld by a safe margin...
Referring to yesterday's election, Stefani went on, "We know exactly who votes and how they vote." Refusing to dwell on his espionage system, he would say only that "expense means nothing when we are protecting the rights of our people...