Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kentucky law forbids vote-counting on Sunday but as early as midnight Saturday it was apparent that "Dear Alben" Barkley was preserved to his President. Despite C. I. O.'s endorsement, he lost a lot of miners' votes in eastern and southern counties but his home counties of western Kentucky backed him solidly and the northern counties, where Flood Relief and WPA benefits had been lavished most heavily, deserted Governor Chandler. On Monday came Louisville's tabulations, and the Barkley margin climbed above...
...After the Dayton furor, Tom Stewart returned to obscurity and to repeated re-election as attorney general in Tennessee's 18th judicial district. A competent trial lawyer, fanatical bird hunter, Methodist, he campaigned under Crump-McKellar direction simply as a Roosevelt New Dealer who would be sure to vote right. WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins, in Memphis attending a WPA conference, coolly declared: "WTPA workers have the right to vote and have civil liberties like anyone else. I don't see anything wrong in soliciting their votes." Getting the WPA vote out for Tom Stewart had been half the Crump...
Missouri - a field goal against the New Deal in the renomination of Senator Bennett Champ Clark. This adverse score was light because Senator Clark was not actively fought by Roosevelt & Co., and his two 100% New Deal opponents were worthy political nobodies. The heaviness (400,000 majority) of the vote for Senator Clark, who opposed the Court Plan, Reorganization and other Roosevelt legislation, could be ascribed to his strong Favorite Son position. Comfort for the New Deal could be found in the victory of Judge James M. Douglas of St. Louis, candidate of New Dealish Governor Stark for the State...
Secretary Ickes attacked Representative Smith for him. His slogan was: "A vote for Dodd is a vote for Roosevelt." But young Mr. Dodd was unknown, inexperienced, no political fireball. Mr. Smith, after four terms in the House, has a potent personal organization, allied with Senator Byrd's. He promised Virginians only that he would continue to vote his convictions, suh, as a good Virginian should. They renominated him by 3-to-1 over young Son Dodd...
Kansas produced no score for or against Franklin Roosevelt in the immediate primary game, since the New Deal's Kansas candidates were virtually unopposed. But in the Republican voting came a possible portent for November-the nomination of onetime (1929-31) Governor Clyde M. Reed for the Senate in a heavy G. O. P. vote. Superficial but spectacular was Mr. Reed's defeat...