Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Jewish voters had the deepest misgivings, the greatest anxieties as to what the outcome of the election might mean to them. Of 200 prominent Jewish leaders polled by the Republican National Committee by week's end, four had replied that they would vote for Roosevelt; 60 said they would vote for Willkie, 40 said that they would too, but did not want to proclaim it from the housetops. Among the 60: Benjamin Buttenwieser, member of Kuhn, Loeb; Lessing J. Rosenwald, former chairman of the board, Sears, Roebuck & Co.; Roger W. Straus, co-chairman of the National Conference of Jews...
...Most observers expected the State-by-State Republican vote to be larger than it has been since 1928, although few expected the solid South to crack. Last week Southern-born George A. Sloan, former president of the Cotton-Textile Institute, wrote a letter to Southern editors and friends: "Let your inner conviction on the third term speak and vote for Wendell L. Willkie in the restoration of national unity and spirit...
Cynthia McGuire's old man was so violently opposed to woman suffrage that he made Cynthia promise she would never vote. She kept her promise. But last week, aged 89, she registered at her home in Council Bluffs, Iowa, defiantly prepared to vote this year. She thought it was her duty. She intended to vote for Mr. Roosevelt...
...many another U. S. citizen, looking anxiously at Europe's vanishing democracy, the opportunity to vote took on a prime importance in 1940. U. S. citizens last week registered in record-breaking numbers. Of the 131,409,881 people in the U. S., statisticians estimated that some 45% would be qualified to vote on Nov. 5. From 15 to 20% of these (the bedridden, the nonplussed, the indifferent) probably will not show up at the polls; but indications last week were that the total vote would exceed 1936's record-breaking 45,647,117 by about...
Worried politicians, who a few months ago expected only a sizable and seizable vote, tried to figure which way this new and unknown swarm would jump, arrived at only one conclusion: an increasingly unpredictable election had become more unpredictable than ever...