Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Said Jim Farley, who gave up his Democratic National Chairmanship rather than work for a Third Term: "I shall vote the straight Democratic ticket on Nov. 5 and I urge the members of my party to do likewise...
There had never been such a train. Over rusty freight spurs that had never carried a passenger train, deep into industrial Roosevelt areas, north to Detroit, south to Toledo; Pittsburgh, New Jersey, New York again; out to Chicago, St. Louis, crisscrossing the big electoral-vote States -seven times through Illinois-back to New York, out again, south to the border States, back to New York, always rolling, almost always late. In the dark green, twelve-car special train sat men who had lived there since Sept. 13. They bore the air of those who had now experienced everything and couldn...
...possibility that a new political alignment will result from the campaign was envisioned by Professor Holcombe. He sees the South less firmly attached to the Democrats and the Republicans bidding for it to counter-balance the labor vote...
Except for Winthrop, all House votes were fairly close. The Law School cast 347 ballots for Willkie, 291 for Roosevelt. The Business School in a poll a week ago went Republican by the lopsided vote...
Most obvious of all is the inadequate provision made for conscript voting. The trainee may vote by absentee ballot if his state allows or he may obtain a one day leave. This is hardly sufficient for most men to reach their homes and return, and it would also involve a great expense. Furthermore, future registration will certainly be curtailed by these rules. In this time when every decision taken will have so profound an effect on our future, an untold number of men are deprived of one of their most sacred liberties and duties because they are "learning to preserve...