Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reader Smith will be disappointed: 1) the 72-hour press run of the Oppenheimer cover was completed long before the first vote was cast; 2) there wasn't a single stick of scrapped type in the shop (the four-page election section was written, edited and printed the day after the election, as planned...
...rest-are not responsible to Congress and so do not have control of Congress . . . [Our elections] are not . . . declarations by the electorate on important issues before them, but merely variations on old copybook maxims such as "Don't change horses in midstream" or "People do not generally vote against prosperity...
...Republican Party should become a party of conservatives, would it ever win another election? Dewey's popular vote was only a shade larger than Herbert Hoover's, despite the fact that a whole generation of voters had grown up since 1928. But in the opinion of Ohio's Bob Taft (who was vacationing in Rome), the Republicans had only to hang on. Said Taft: "[The party] should present a constructive program . . . opposing every unnecessary addition to the totalitarian powers of the federal government. The fallacies and dangers of the Administration's economic and control policies will...
...Republicans had captured the independent vote-and then promptly lost it. To Connecticut's Senator Raymond Baldwin, the reasons for the loss were clear as early as 1947. The independent voters, he pointed out then, had wanted mild labor legislation, housing, something done about high prices, protection through rent controls. The 80th Congress gave them the Taft-Hartley law, no housing, no action on prices, and raised rents...
...means of increasing the vote in national elections,* New York's Democratic Representative Arthur G. Klein proposed a $30 income-tax deduction for every voter who casts his ballot...