Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Knowing well that he would be roasted to a turn in the Senate for his tax-spend-elect slogan, but expecting to be confirmed eventually by about a 2-to-1 vote, Mr. Hopkins dived at his new job with all speed. He announced he would retain "Uncle Dan" Roper's impressive Business Advisory Council, most of whose many members are "close personal friends." He asked his specially close friend, W. Averell Harriman, board chairman of the Union Pacific Railroad Co. and also of the Advisory Council, to come to Washington as soon as convenient. He hired able Political...
...passed resolution recommending legislation to prevent foreigners resident in the Americas from exercising collective political rights claimed for them by their countries of origin. Under this restriction it is doubtful whether even a U. S. citizen resident in a Latin American State would be allowed to exercise his absentee vote in the U. S. Hence the U. S. delegation voted for a measure which, if passed, would probably be most unpopular at home. But the measure's chief benefit was obviously to Argentina, Brazil and Chile, where large German and Italian blocs have been agitating for minority rights...
...National Socialism win its first absolute majority in a city election (at Coburg) and make its first significant showing in a provincial election (in Thuringia). But from 1928 on the party almost continually gained in electoral strength. In the Reichstag elections of 1928 it polled 809,000 votes. Two years later 6,401,016 Germans voted for National Socialist deputies, while in 1932 the vote was 13,732,779. While still short of a majority, the vote was nevertheless impressive proof of the power of the man and his movement...
When the ballots were counted the vote stood: for Conservative Snadden, 11,808, for the Duchess, 10,495. (The Duchess polled 15,000 as official Conservative candidate...
...away as hard as they could from their obligations, but our Prime Minister, in spite of his more advanced years, kept well ahead. What a magnificent old sprinter he is!" Conservative Party whips got busy and the "no confidence" motion was beaten off by the usual 340-to-143 vote...