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...President of the U. S. made answer to the woman election clerk as he went to cast his ballot. Accompanied by wife and mother he had driven through a pouring rain to Hyde Park's town hall...
Biennially Calvin Coolidge used to board a special train, whisk off to Northampton, Mass., drop his vote marked with a cautious x into the ballot box. His electoral duty done, that President would then whisk back to Washington. In 1928 Herbert Hoover went to Palo Alto to drop his vote and hear election returns which put him into the White House. His ballot in 1930 was cast by mail. In 1932 he crossed the continent for the first and only time during his Presidency, again to vote and hear election returns which put him out of the White House. Franklin...
...Governor Merriam would win, the election. The Literary Digest poll said the same thing?2½-to-1. The gamblers' money had switched to Merriam at 5-to-1. Almost as hysterical as his opponents, Sinclair charged that "208 experienced gangsters" had been brought from New York to substitute "stuffed" ballot boxes for the official ones...
Nowhere else is such an overwhelming majority of voters passionately resolved to stuff the ballot box as in the Saar. This smoke-smudged cockpit of coal and ore, priceless in wartime, is a prize worth cheating for. On Jan. 13, 1935 Saarlanders who are over 20 years old and were Saarlanders on June 28, 1919 will vote to decide whether the Saar shall remain under League of Nations rule, unite with France or reunite with Germany. Last week the League's long-suffering Commissioner for the Saar, His Excellency Geoffrey Knox, totaled up the number of Saarlanders...
Then Radio roundly scooped the Press with the latter's own costly reports of the ballot counting. The Press rose up angrily and vowed never again to hand its precious stock-in-trade over to its most dangerous competitor. Columbia Broadcasting System organized its own newsgathering service, proceeded to sell a news program to commercial sponsors...