Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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National Affairs (TIME, April 15, p. 20) concerning Oldster Hull-"Mr. Hull represents probably the last chance for U. S.citizens who want to vote for a man born in a log cabin...
...politicos and courts; 3) William, the youngest, whom the U. S. Senate refused to seat (1927-29), on the ground that he had bought the election, although not many Senators could refute Mr. Vare's understandably angry argument that many of their elections had cost more per vote, more per capita, and more per voting district than his. It was Bill Vare's plump for Herbert Hoover in 1928 that nominated the Great Engineer at Kansas City...
...bought the Farm Journal (circulation, about 1,000,000), later merged it with The Farmer's Wife, pumped it full of Republicanism to recall the rural vote to its senses...
...supplement to photographs, he announced a competition, in collaboration with Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, for newsy drawings, with five top prizes of $100, 20 prizes of $50 each. A jury chose and hung some 200 entries for the public to see, invited gallerygoers to vote their choice for a special extra prize...
...foreign situation. As things stand now, the Republicans have nothing to sink their teeth into, not that they would sink them even if they had anything. The problem is certainly important enough to deserve something more than evasions in the election this fall. The people are anxious to vote on our foreign policy, and indeed they must, if our road through World War II is to be anything better than the dark, rutted side-road...