Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hampshire and Wisconsin, the votes for Garner were out-&-out protests against Term III. By simple addition, Illinois was at least a 50-50 break between the President and a Republican. But under a primary-law technicality, an estimated 150,000 G.O.P. voters were unable to vote in Cook County (Chicago) last week: having changed registrations a year ago to Democratic, in order to fight the election of Mayor Ed Kelly, they may not vote in Republican primaries until 1941. Moreover, Tom Dewey's whopping total was but 90% of the Republican vote-at least 10% of the GOPsters...
...first time since 1930, the G.O.P. primary vote was larger than the Democratic. And Nebraska, unlike Wisconsin, is a typical Midwest State...
...formerly inspected for the U. S. Government. To attract crowds he hired "The Great Chandu," a magician. A Chandu come-on: to tear up a picture of a bass, unfold the torn bits to exhibit an intact picture of a bigger bass, and announce: "If you like this trick, vote for Bedel instead of the fish...
...last week's primary: "For Roosevelt and Humanity." On primary day Mr. Roosevelt ran fairly well (see p. 14), but Humanity had rough going. While Mr. Stelle was properly crushed by the machine-voters seemed to resent his "seizure" of the Governorship the day before-the Republican vote showed the Kelly-Nash-Horner machine parlous times ahead...
...French Cabinet crisis-new Premier Paul Reynaud was just about to face risky test votes in Senate and Chamber-was postponed in spontaneous French agreement that now was no time to vote on whether France should again swap Premiers in midwar. Glad that Adolf Hitler had given it the excuse, Parliament went home for a week without voting...