Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...House also had a trying week, but had nobody to take it out on. All it had to do was to vote for conscription in an election year, and though conscription was supposedly favored by a great majority of the U. S. electorate, incumbent politicians fear one angry voter more deeply than they are reassured by five satisfied ones...
...politicians," its fate in a House of 435 politicians was sealed. The amendment was adopted 185-to-155. More notable to many a Representative was the sight of Republican National Chairman Joe Martin-not the only Republican more isolationist than his Presidential candidate-striding up to the teller to vote for the amendment beside his bearded fellow Bay Stater, Isolationist George Holden Tinkham...
Died. Jonathan Bourne, Jr., 85, onetime U. S. Senator from Oregon (1907-13), "first man elected to the Senate by popular vote" when the Oregon legislature, anticipating the 17th Amendment (1913) providing for direct election of Senators, agreed to be bound by the election returns; after breaking his hip in a fall; in Washington...
...Wendell Willkie portrait was also commissioned by the Tribune, for the usual $500. Mr. Doctoroff will sell the rights, if the Republicans wish them, for the usual $1,500. During the brief sittings, Artist Doctoroff went all-out for Candi date Willkie, resolved to vote for him al though he has never voted at all before. Last week he even let out a Willkie slogan, which impressionable Republicans may like: "He seems to put his arms around you with his eyes...
Talk In Aargau, Switzerland, a prankster placed a Swiss Army poster warning "Keep Quiet-Idle Talk May Betray the Nation" under the speakers' rostrum of the canton's Legislature. A motion to remove it failed by one vote...