Word: precinct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That stirred up the Dutch blood of Senator Van Nuys, a small-town lawyer who spent 32 years climbing from precinct worker to Senator. He stethoscoped Indiana and concluded that his anti-Court-bill vote was one of the most popular he ever cast. He began to talk of running as an independent if denied the Democratic nomination. "I think I know the rank and file of the party. I have been with President Roosevelt 95% of the time. ... I propose that the people of Indiana shall have a chance to express themselves...
...rate the starting team will be announced on Friday, and until then the race is wide open. (Confidentially it all depends on the precinct leaders who get out the vote...
...With 385 precinct out of 388 reporting, Maurice J. Tobin seemed certain to receive the election of Mayor of Boston as this paper went to press at 2 o'clock this morning. Tobin polled 103,059 votes, former Governor James M. Curley 81,034, Malcolm E. Nichols...
...When election time rolls around, the man upon whom wise political bosses count is not the howling demagog, but the obscure little wardheeler who, through family, friends and acquaintances, can be counted on to deliver 50 or 60 certain votes. Of the smallest cog in the political machine, the precinct executive who lives with his constituents and does favors for them year in & out, Pundit Frank Kent wrote in The Great Game Of Politics: "He is the bone and sinew of the machine. He is its foundation and the real source of its strength. If he does not function...
...Little Italy," proposed to build up a regular heelers' union, with dues, locals, organizers and perhaps eventually affiliation with either the American Federation of Labor or the Committee for Industrial Organization. He was particularly incensed at the ward leaders, the only machine men who even know the precinct workers' names, and the only ones through whom they can do business with the higher...