Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last spring a body of seventeen Juniors and Seniors was chosen to serve as the Harvard Student Council for the coming year. Nine of the men were elected by vote of their respective classes; eight additional members were appointed, so that this body might unify the undergraduates by representing each House, the out-of-House group, and the commuters...
...sleeping Senator" but he can point to a long list of farm legislation he brought to passage as chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. His chief sins against the New Deal were opposing processing taxes, the Court Plan, Wages & Hours, Housing, Anti-Lynching. Last week he eagerly promised to vote with Franklin Roosevelt whenever he thought him right. His personal platform (the same for 30 years): "States rights, white supremacy, tariff for revenue only...
...militia to drive able Chief Highway Commissioner Ben Sawyer out of office, only to have the State Supreme Court uphold Mr. Sawyer. Both Candidates Johnston and Brown proudly recall that they worked in cotton mills as boys - a good political start in a State where textile workers vote as heavily as farmers...
Observers last week rated Senator Smith and Governor Johnston the likeliest qualifiers for a run-off primary, gave Senator Smith some chance of winning a majority on the first vote, next week. If he wins then or later, he will owe thanks to two friends of Franklin Roosevelt who refused to play their part in the Presidential purge: Mayor Burnet R. Maybank of Charleston, leading candidate for Governor, and South Carolina's junior Senator James ("Jimmy") Byrnes. They are fond of "Cotton Ed." and they know he cannot live forever. If he dies with his Senatorial boots...
...Pope, whom he charged with being a New Deal yesman, confident New Dealers overlooked one fact-that this year Idaho's election law had been changed to permit voters to enter either primary without regard to previous party affiliation. Evidently many a Borah Isolationist took the opportunity to vote against Internationalist Pope. Representative Clark squeezed him out by almost 4,000 votes, scored the first defeat of an incumbent Roosevelt Senator this year...