Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ago last week. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was re-elected President of the U. S. by the biggest vote in U. S. history. Last week, while local elections popped and fizzled through the land, the President drove to the town hall of Hyde Park to cast his vote on a ballot headed by the candidate for town supervisor. Inquired Miss Alma Van Curan, Democratic chairman of the election board...
Last week's elections (see p. 15) large and small, proved nothing if not that most of the voters who had gone to the polls had been more concerned with local issues than with national party lines. The President's vote-299th in his District-helped re-elect his friend Elmer Van Wagner by 275 votes...
...defeat had been accompanied by the retirement of arch-conservative Mr. Justice Van Devanter. And no matter how much his former Ku Klux Klan membership belies any innate liberalism, Mr. Justice Black, who was given the vacant chair, is a bona fide New Dealer and may be expected to vote with the liberal wing, as he did this week. Thus in the 1937-38 term, the liberals will have, if not a working majority, at least the Court's strongest minority, and, paradoxically for Mr. Roosevelt's conception that a Justice's conservatism varies directly with...
...strongest ally of "Boston's Original Roosevelt Man" has in the past been Boston's non-partisan election law, which provides for no primary to weed out contenders, and usually produces enough can didates, to split the Curley opposition. Soliciting the anti-Curley vote this time was an ambitious aggregation which by last week had sifted down to Maurice J. Tobin (a member of the Boston School Committee), onetime (1926-29) Republican Mayor Malcolm Ex Nichols and Democratic District Attorney William J. Foley, besides two lesser candidates, one of whom withdrew his name too late...
...press, radio and cinema reputation. In the Soviet Union the press, the radio and the cinema are 100% controlled by the Soviet State and the Communist Party. No other party is permitted to exist. There is no opposition press. The new Constitution for the first time makes the vote of a peasant equal the vote of a townsman. No one may be nominated except at a meeting, the minutes of which must be signed by all the presiding officers and who will put his name to a paper which the Secret Police, after the election, could construe as evidence...