Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...November with Republican Harry Stewart, former mayor of Reno. But the Senatorial race in his party brought to mind Mr. Scrugham's eagle story. Young Albert Hilliard, Reno lawyer, tried his wings against roseate Old Senator Patrick Anthony McCarran, who was lightly marked for Purging because of his vote against the Court Bill. On his way through Nevada in July, Franklin Roosevelt encouraged the fledgling New Dealer by calling him "Brother Hilliard." Last week young "Brother Hilliard" crashed to earth as old Pat McCarran soared off witha 3-to-1 majority. Against Democrat McCarran in November will run Republican...
...Maine went in 1936, so did the nation not go. In this week's "barometer" election, her three incumbent representatives*-Republicans all (Messrs, Oliver, Smith, Brewster)-confused their New Deal issue by all plumping for the vote-catching Townsend Plan of old-age pensions. Republican Governor Lewis O. Barrows had the benefit of an anti-third-term tradition against former Governor Louis J. Brann, for whom Crooner Rudy Vallée stumped at the last moment. That all four Republicans won was less of a weather vane than a what-is-it, unless significance lay in the vote ratios...
Careful to keep a protective New Deal coloration on his voting record, John O'Connor used his chief function-as chairman of the powerful Rules Committee-to bottle up New Deal legislation, notably the Wages-&-Hours Bill, which Rules twice kept off the floor until the White House prodded the House into discharging the bill from committee. Already marked for Purge when he went back to the Gashouse to campaign this spring, Congressman O'Connor wrote a letter to the New Dealish Daily News, claiming that his only actual anti-New Deal vote was against Reorganization...
...Eliot-a Democrat since, aged 10, he alone voted for Woodrow Wilson in a class poll-is opposed by three Irishmen, in a heavily Irish district. His chance-rated even by local experts-lies in the Irish vote's splitting. Last week one of his opponents, Carroll Lehane, crashed an Eliot rally in Brighton. Instead of letting Mr. Lehane be bum's-rushed out. Candidate Eliot, trained to sportsmanship on the playing fields of Cambridge, invited him to speak. If nominated, Tom Eliot's harder fight will come in November, against crafty old Republican Robert Luce...
...bonds." A bit more volume was turned on as No. 3 Nazi Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels made a screaming oration to Party officials in which he flayed former U. S. Ambassador to Germany Dr. William E. Dodd and climaxed "President Benes of Czechoslovakia owes his election to the Communist vote!" Then, Der Führer signaled fortissimo, and beefy, bull-voiced No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Göring tore into a two-hour speech of such exhausting fury that afterwards his doctors rushed him out of Nürnberg suffering from what they said was acute sore throat...