Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...family swiftly became oppressively familiar. Most of the delegates wanted to be let alone, to go about their ancient business in the ancient way. But rabid strangers, unlike any political heelers they had ever seen, surrounded them on the street, gripped their lapels, argued bitterly, demanded (not begged) their vote for this man Willkie. In this urgent, crusading atmosphere the delegates were increasingly uncomfortable. They could no longer read the newspapers with any enjoyment for all the important political columnists were daily comparing the nomination of anyone but Willkie to the Fall of France-Ray Clapper, Mark Sullivan, Arthur Krock...
...suspense hung over Philadelphia. The pall spoiled the ordinary political gaieties. Uneasily, defiantly, the delegates debated with their consciences and each other; uneasily they tramped around to see Willkie again & again, catching fleeting glimpses of a shaggy man, haggard, hoarse, sweating, strange, standing on a hotel dressing-chair exhorting: "Vote for me early. It's better to come to grace early than late...
...From Buffalo came the Uncle Sam Marching Club, resplendent in peppermint pants and top hats with signs telling delegates to "Vote for Dewey." A girl band tooted, marched, got shiny-nosed in Mr. Dewey's cause, collapsed between parades in his hotel lobby...
Wells Lewis, 22 years old, will cast his first vote for a President of the United States on Nov. 5. A graduate of Harvard, son of Novelist Sinclair Lewis, author of one novel (They Still Say No), he is a young man who grew up under the New Deal. A practicing newspaperman, he works for the Greenville, Miss. Delta Democrat-Times as a news editor at $20 a week...
Month ago, an epidemic of sword swallowing started through the instinctively Republican ranks of businessmen. A frequent remark, especially in suburban and junior-executive circles: "I hate Roosevelt's guts, but I'll vote for him sooner than for Taft or Dewey." The reason for the epidemic was Adolf Hitler, who had reawakened in America the dormant sensation of patriotism. And President Roosevelt, by his aggressive rearmament policy, had begun to deflect the U. S. businessman's hatred of the New Deal toward Berlin. Young Republicans mistrusted Roosevelt, but they mistrusted the bumbling, obsolete, Chamberlainesque rituals...