Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...election was to test the efficiency of the Chicago Democratic machine, the Horatius that has kept downstate Illinoisans from pushing the third most populous State in the U. S. over the bridge to its "normal" Republicanism. In 1932 the machine held Herbert Hoover down to 41% of the Chicago vote. In 1936 Alf Landon was shaved to 34%. Last week Republicans got 43.7%. That augured Republican victory in 1940 and made Dwight Green the leading Republican candidate for Governor of Illinois...
...Thomas Edmund Dewey made headlines with vote-appeal for Labor last week by arresting 14 bullyboys employed by private detective agencies as guards and strikebreakers in contravention of a year-old State law prohibiting such agencies from hiring help with police records...
...kept Miss Anderson out of Constitution Hall and Eleanor Roosevelt quit the Daughters in protest (TIME, March 6, et seq.), a Marian Anderson Citizens' Committee went to work to rebuke Negrophobes. In so doing, it put on the spot many a politico to whom the U. S. Negro vote will be important...
...brother of General Motors' Alfred P. and head of the Sloan Foundation). He declared that Stephens taught consumers to practice "economic statesmanship" by reminding them that each time a consumer chooses between a hand-made and a machine-made product, between American and foreign goods, he casts a vote for a particular kind of economic system...
Most striking incident in Belgium's sudden unification: Dr. Martens resigned from the Academy. He announced his resignation at one o'clock the afternoon of election day-just when the polls closed, so as not to influence the vote but in plenty of time to remove his irksome issue from Belgian politics before the new Parliament meets...