Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knows what is ahead? And who knows how potent and effective might be the balance-of-power vote of some half-million conscripts even in a peacetime army, with no right to vote...
...Senator Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri got the Burke-Wadsworth Bill amended to provide that conscripts may vote "if entitled to by State laws." But under the Constitution the States determine the qualifications of voters. There are 48 different State laws on the subject, and six States-Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, Pennsylvania-make no provision for absentee voting. The Army's Judge Advocate General says that in 29 States soldiers and sailors are barred from the polls...
...millions of us Americans who still believe Roosevelt can do more for this country and its people than the G. O. P. candidate, however glamorous. The least you can do is give the two candidates an even break. Then when you go to the polls in November you can vote, by golly, as you please. But save us from more of that blind-adoration stuff in your magazine...
Last week some 2,000,000 typical U. S. citizens marched to the polls in ten State primary elections to strike an X for their favorite Congressmen, Governors, lesser State officials. Result was an average vote, some hot local contests, a few new faces here and there, a disinclination to change horses. Highlights...
Michigan. Drawing like a sump pump, good-godly Governor Luren Dickinson, 81, dredged up more than twice the combined vote of his six Republican opponents. As a warning to his Democratic opponent, State Highway Commissioner Murray D. Van Wagoner, Oldster Dickinson cackled: "Probably tens of thousands of my friends didn't vote for me, because I'm 81 years of age. . . . You can't blame them." Isolationist Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg won by 8-to-1 over a Detroit razor blade salesman named Bowen R. Grover...