Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Strecker did vote in both 1928 and 1932. Says his lawyer, C. Alpheus Stanfield: "Here in Hot Springs we are broadminded on a question like that...
Tennessee did not vote back its bars. Its new law permits package trade only, for cash not credit,* with the wet-dry option still reserved to each county. Tax: 70? the gallon on whiskey. To Boss Crump's wet Shelby County the only difference will be that thirsty Memphians need no longer drive over the Mississippi River bridge to the nearest liquor store, a big, hugely profitable emporium on the Arkansas shore...
Kelly had won short of half the 1,236,456 votes cast in Chicago that day, but Republicans, who cast 274,317 votes, nonetheless took hope for the election April 4. Reason: they had buried their worst local liability, clownish three-time Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, who in an attempted comeback at 70, complete with sombrero, coonskin coat, open Cadillac but with no new tricks, polled only 62,000 votes. The rest of the Republican vote went to establish a fresher, more attractive party face, that of Lawyer Dwight Herbert ("Pete") Green...
Hailed by the Republican National Committee as "similar in type to ... Thomas E. Dewey" of New York, Republican Green is expected to give Kelly & crew at least a good workout before election day, April 4. Long-shot bettors pointed out that his primary vote (211,965) was almost as large as that polled by the late Democrat Anton J. ("Tony") Cermak when he upset Chicago's Republicans...
Before the afternoon's voting, Cardinal Pacelli calmly paced a corridor, reading his breviary. Then, after conversing with a colleague, he stumbled, fell headlong down a short flight of steps, arose bruised and shaken. Shortly thereafter followed a third vote, and the lengthy, ceremonial reading of the ballots. When Cardinal Pacelli, seated under his baldachin (canopy), heard his name pronounced for the 42nd successive time, he suddenly hid his face in his hands. The reading continued. The Secretary of State received 61 votes...