Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scrupulous legislator, Senator McGill always records his vote, regularly attends the meetings of his five committees-Agriculture, Judiciary, Immigration, Naval Affairs, and Pensions (of which he is chairman). In committee he has furthered his two legislative interests: more money for veterans and the cause of the wheat farmer. He wrote the wheat sections of the Pope-McGill Farm Bill (the second AAA), defended them in the longest speech he ever made in Congress...
...believe in the totalitarian state," declared Mr. Hopkins. "I don't want to vote in the same party primary, or for the same candidates, as any man whose fundamental political views are opposed to mine...
...South Carolina's primary vote was a conservative headache to Franklin Roosevelt (see above). California's was a radical stomachache. There, despite his personal blessing, his old friend, Senator William Gibbs McAdoo-who served with him under Woodrow Wilson-was last week snowed under by more than 100,000 votes. That blizzard was not directly caused by the fact that during the campaign Mr. McAdoo was called too conservative, too old (74), a former Klansman (untrue). The reason that Oldster McAdoo failed of renomination was-so far as hard-headed politicians could tell - principally one plank...
Smith had a fat majority of votes, the widest margin of all his six races for the Senate. In the textile towns, millworkers had poured out to vote for Governor Johnston, aroused by President Roosevelt's promise of a better deal for labor. But many mill hands and most propertied people and almost all the cotton growers -sharecroppers as well as landlords- trooped to the polls to vote for Cotton Ed, the farmers' friend...
...After being Speaker in the Legislature and State Senator he went to Congress, to the U. S. Senate in 1927. His voting record suggests eccentricity yet shows a pattern: against war, racial injustice, Prohibition, Bonus, tariffs & embargoes, depreciated currency. War debts. He voted against the Wagner Act, the Guffey Coal Act, the Utilities bill, AAA, TVA, NRA, Cotton Control; for SEC, Neutrality, Pump Priming, fathered the Miller-Tydings Act for price control of trademarked goods. In this campaign, his most vulnerable spot is his failure to vote on Social Security...