Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Prentiss Brown of Michigan, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, agreed in principle with his President but cheerfully recalled how Michigan Democrats, in their weakened condition prior to 1928, used to vote in the Republican primaries as a matter of course. "In the Southern States," observed Senator Brown, "it is about the only way the [Republican] minority can express itself...
...Franklin Roosevelt tried to sound hearty about the withdrawal last week, three days before the vote, of State Senator Edgar Brown from the primary race for U. S. Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith's seat from South Carolina. Mr. Roosevelt said it "clarified the issue" and he urged the voters to swing in behind Governor Olin D. Johnston, his agent to "purge" Senator Smith. Mr. Brown ruined the effect of this appeal by blasting Candidate Johnston as an insolent Huey Longster...
...Roosevelt evidently forgot that in Maryland, and most other States, it is legally impossible at this late date for registered Republicans to vote in Democratic primaries...
...baby, what fresh cow is for sale, or how the road is down river way-they ask the.R. F. D. carrier. He or she (there are 323 shes among 32,988 U. S. rural mail-carriers) also has a good idea of who is going to vote for whom in an election year, and can do a lot toward getting folks to vote this way or that. One of Postmaster General Farley's main reasons for getting back from politicking around the country was to address 1,550 members of the National Rural Letter Carriers Association, together with their...
...Leary is really in the thick of the fight. "People seem to be tickled to death with my platform," he told the CRIMSON, "they all say they're going to vote for me. I'm swamped with phone calls...