Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four years ago Mayor LaGuardia won election in a three-cornered race against a Tammany and a "Recovery" (New Deal Democratic) opponent. In so doing he polled about 800,000 votes to 1,200,000 by his rivals combined. Had Dr. Copeland won the Republican primary, LaGuardia running under some other label would again have had the advantage of a three-cornered race. Instead Tammany, beaten in the primaries, announced that it would support Democrat Jerry Mahoney, once more consolidating the Democratic vote. Judge Mahoney being a New Dealer, and having won Jewish sympathy two years ago by standing...
When a Philippine plebiscite last spring voted in favor of suffrage for women by a 400,000 to 40,000 majority, only one more wrinkle remained before Filipino women became enfranchised. This was the actual framing of a law to allow them to vote. Last week, the wrinkle was ironed out in characteristic Filipino fashion...
...Manuel Quezon last week announced that he would veto the woman suffrage bill unless it imposed a poll tax on women, recommended 25? a head as a minimum tariff for Filipino females. Next day, while Filipino suffragettes sputtered with indignation that a tax should go with the right to vote, the National Assembly passed a bill which evaded the question of the poll tax by substituting a different method of identifying voters. If President Quezon signs it, Filipino voters will hereafter put their thumbprints on their ballots. The prints will then serve to settle anticipated arguments about fraudulent voting...
Vindicated by its scattered followers, the Guild leadership was ready to push on this week with scores of negotiations which have been dormant. Most important fronts: 1) the United Press, where the Guild began an intensive campaign to roll up a majority in the employe representation vote about to be conducted by the National Labor Relations Board: 2) the 95-year-old Brooklyn Eagle, where 305 editorial and business office Guildsmen are on strike in the first major test of Guild power in New York...
...gaudy blue & gold dress uniform of a Field Marshal, the owl-eyed Son of Heaven, Hirohito, Emperor of Japan last week addressed his parliament from the Throne. Assembled for an emergency session, the legislators were expected to vote an additional $592,000,000 for a war that has already cost Japan $145,000,000. Said the Emperor...