Word: precinct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Young Jim." The War had interrupted his law schooling, but overseas service in the 103rd Field Artillery was not bad training for a rising Pendergast. For Pendergast "Goats," there was still plenty of fistfighting to be done with Shannon "Rabbits" when Young Jim started at the bottom as precinct worker and pollbook carrier in his father's Tenth Ward. An apt pupil, he was ready to take over the ward when his father died in 1929. That year Young Jim's training for the succession began in earnest. Beginning to tire of 500 conferences per day, Big Boss...
...campaign. When inspired rumors of the type familiar in all election campaigns were spread, by the opposition, to the effect that Governor Horner would be slighted, Chairman Nash and Mayor Kelly took the unprecedented action of personally sending to each of the more than 3,500 county precinct workers a telegram reinforcing the party position of wholehearted support for every candidate on the ticket...
...lots of other changes if Roosevelt sets up a dictatorship. The seven voters of a place called Millsfield, New Hampshire, won't have to get out of bed in the middle of the night to vote five-to-two for Landon and beat New Ashford, Mass., as the first precinct to be heard from. Nor will there be that phony voting machine in Troy, New York, which since time immemorial has broken down at ten o'clock election morning to show in all its nakedness twelve Republican and eighty-four Democratic votes. There won't be any more pictures...
Returning just in time to cast his vote in the national elections, President Conant will arrive in New York on board the "Queen Mary" on Monday, November 2. He has registered as a Republican in ward 7, precinct 5 of Cambridge...
...East and West his program was the same. The press reported his public speeches, gave the impression that he was simply stumping the country. But privately clean-cut, aggressive John Hamilton was hobnobbing with local bigwigs, pumping the hands of county chairmen and precinct leaders, fulfilling Nominee Landon's parting instructions to "give 'em hell and get their tails...