Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sarah Oliver Hulswit, head of an anti-New Deal crusade called the Women's Rebellion, asked (unsuccessfully) Attorney General David T. Wilentz* of New Jersey to enforce against WPA workers an old New Jersey statute (ten other States have similar laws) denying to paupers the right to vote, President Roosevelt last week grew highly sarcastic in press conference. The "ladies' proposal," he snorted, was about as democratic as it would be to limit voters to male holders of B.A. degrees. While he was on the subject he went on also to denounce poll taxes as a relic...
...South Carolina no one can vote in general elections without a poll tax receipt, but any white man can enter a primary by putting his name down in a book (often kept in a grocery store). This year some 20,000 Negroes were allowed to put their names down, a piece of official colorblindness far more advantageous to New Dealer Johnston than to unreconstructed "Cotton Ed" Smith...
Thomas Cheeseborough. Lithe, chiseled, erect, he looks more snobbish than he is, but like a soldier and individualist still disdains cheap politics. "If I can't vote my convictions here," he once said in the Senate, "to hell with this...
...submit their differences to arbitration? Yes, said Mr. Enochs. No. chorused Messrs. Harrison and Whitney. The National Mediation Board then realized that the dispute needed more sitting on than it had bottom for stopped trying. Labormen Harrison and Whitney promptly prepared to poll their members in a national strike vote...
...Last week the Colorado Chain Stores Association began a campaign for repeal of a four-year-old chain-store tax. Colorado is the only State in which the tax was enacted by popular vote...