Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt started it. In Hyde Park, where he had gone to vote, visit his mother, catch cold and be serenaded by shivering villagers after the Republicans swept the county, he told reporters what he thought of the transfer of U. S. ships to foreign flags...
...Maria Magdalene Sieber, better known as Marlene Dietrich, cast her first vote as a U. S. citizen in Beverly Hills, Calif. Asked how she voted on Ham & Eggs, Marlene said: "When I became a citizen they told me my vote was sacred-and for that reason I don't want to tell how I voted...
Paul Olum '40, of Binghamton, N. Y., and Eliot House was elected to the coveted post of First Marshal of the Phi Beta Kappa Society last night, as the Junior Eight met in the Lowell House tutors' common room to vote on the Society's executive personnel and to determine the 16 men from the Senior class to be taken in at this election...
Although the decisions of the Corporation are technically subject to the approval of the Board of Overseers, an annually elected body of alumni, since 1689 the Board has almost never wielded its legal vote power...
...long-laid ghost-that of the "White House spokesman." Unghostly, cherry-cheeked Secretary Steve Early got the call. Spokesmanlike, he asked the U. S. Press to consider the "timing" of Russian Premier Molotov's blast at U. S. foreign policy-on the day of a crucial House vote on the 1939 Neutrality Act. Later that day the White House released without comment past correspondence between President Roosevelt and U. S. S. R. President Kalinin, in which Mr. Kalinin thanked Mr. Roosevelt for a non-aggression proposal to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini...