Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never more seriously threatened than it was last week by the same Gordon Browning. In Nashville, a special session of the Legislature passed a bill to put Tennessee primaries on a county-unit basis like Georgia's whereby each county would have one unit vote for every 100 popular votes cast in the last gubernatorial election, with an absolute maximum of ⅛ of 1% of the population. Object of Governor Browning's unit plan was to enlarge the voting power of rural districts, put a crimp in the Crump vote by reducing it from approximately...
Carrying along the same lines are the lectures to be given by Bernard De Vote on American history and civilization. These lectures also serve to further President Conant's program to encourage study in this field. Both of these series of lectures are valuable assets to the university not only for their inherent value as cultural contributions, but for their significance in the scholastic world as an advance toward the spread of learning beyond academic confines...
...Democratic machine has proved itself bankrupt of moral responsibility and utterly unfitted to rule a modern city. In no department is Tammany less fitted than in that dealing with the enforcement of law and order. And yet the Tammany candidate for Mayor seriously asks an electorate to vote for his ticket on the plea that Fusion has ruined the City. Rather, "to end banditry" and make parks and streets safe for all, the LaGuardia and Dewey team deserves to be sent in with a large majority...
...William Bertrand Stevens, 52, of Los Angeles, or Bishop William George McDowell Jr., 55, of Alabama, either if elected would serve for more than a decade. Last-minute lobbying for a presiding bishop who would be in the saddle a little more briefly, produced, when the bishops gathered to vote behind closed doors, numerous other names. Of these write-in candidates, one 63-year-old showed such strength on the first ballot that he received a majority on the second, was then elected unanimously by both bishops and deputies. His name: Rt. Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, Bishop of Virginia...
...work week to five days and make other changes in U. P. employment conditions. Although the Guild demanded a National Labor Relations Board poll in May, delay followed a U. P. challenge that all bureau managers, even those with only one assistant, were executives and ineligible to vote. While the N.L.R.B. held hearings which decided this point in U. P.'s favor, the nimble Guild made valuable use of the delay with systematic, successful electioneering...