Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Contrary to public opinion," Axtell said last night, "the practice of electing class officers is far from democratic. We feel that is not a sign of intelligent democracy for a class of 1,000 men to vote almost blindly for candidates whom they do not know...
Spurning this luscious prospect, spurning Jesse Jones's surprise offer of $200,000 for Houston, members took Chicago, although Mayor Kelly had to stride up & down the aisle, acting as his own floor marshal; and the vote was close. In no time newspaper correspondents added it up as another sign of strength for the third-term drive, since Mayor Kelly had spoken for it. and even Chairman Farley had mentioned the 10,000,000 independent voters whose votes, third-termers believe, can be brought out only by glamorous, dramatic Franklin Roosevelt...
...more complicated political system could be devised than U. S. Presidential primaries, which are held in 15 or 16 of the 48 States. In these primaries the people ostensibly select delegates who will go to the Party convention, there vote for the man they are "instructed" to nominate for President. These delegates are supposedly bound to keep on voting for The People's choice until he is nominated or hopelessly out of the race.* In most States, both parties are content to leave political maneuvering up to State conventions, let them pick what delegates they please to send...
...separate things. This does not mean that every French husband or bachelor has a mistress. What it does mean is that the French woman does not have to be enigmatic, isolated or incomprehensible. Like her husband she is gregarious, and hence wants a family more than she wants the vote. Like him, she is economical, often in the less advantaged classes to the point of unsanitation. A beaten rug loses part of its life, and no scraps of food of the slightest usefulness are to be thrown away...
...Roosevelt found that the Communist threat in the American Youth Congress is greatly exaggerated, for of the four and a half million members only about fifteen thousand are members of the YCL. "No vote has ever been dominated by the Communists," she added, "but at the July Congress the Christian Front tried to control the meeting and was stepped...