Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have to vote for a dictatorship to have one in America. . . . We have merely to vote increased government responsibility for our individual lives, increased government authority over our daily habits, and the resultant Federal paternalism will inevitably become dictatorship...
...play as well as trade with U.S. tycoons. With his brothers, Juan, Angel and Manolo-one of whom married a Spreckels of San Francisco-he used to have a polo team, rated at 19 goals, which won the Far Eastern title.* Besides enjoying the right to speak (but not vote) in Congress, to be entertained by Washington's lion-hunting matrons, Commissioner Elizalde will be able to enjoy better golf and tennis at Washington's country clubs than he could at Manila...
...weeks after her primary vote, Maryland last week finally succeeded in choosing her Democratic nominee for Governor. When more than two men in a party seek this office, Maryland voters are asked to indicate their second choices on primary ballots. The nomination itself is voted by county delegates, thus instructed, at a State convention. Even after second-choice votes were counted at last week's convention in Baltimore, neither Mayor Howard W. Jackson of Baltimore nor Attorney General Herbert R. O'Conor had a clear majority. The seven delegates of Prince Georges County broke the deadlock, swung...
Officers of the Council reported last night that pledges were still coming in at a slower vote than last year. Up to yesterday afternoon the Council still had $4780 outstanding in unpaid pledges. Payment should be made at the Council office in Brooks House...
...Republicans who turned out to vote, three-fourths chose lanky Leverett Saltonstall, 46, a blue-blooded Back Bay clansman, whose ancestors include Colonial Governors of Massachusetts and Connecticut, old Harvard oar, former Speaker of the Massachusetts house...