Word: brann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Victory Parade." At 7:45 p. m. on the last night of the campaign Nominee Landon's special train chuffed into Portland. Governor Brann was at the station to greet him, hand him a Maine fishing license. A whooping torchlight parade escorted him to the Municipal Stadium. There, a thick, cold mist had wet the folding chairs of his 15,000 auditors. Stepping out in his new fighting role, Alf Landon kept warm by shaking his clenched fist, pounding his reading desk with unaccustomed belligerency. His audience, chilled and uncomfortable as the one in Buffalo last month, was equally...
Over the State they also plastered bills for an $8,359.80 week-end fishing party which Governor Brann gave at State expense last year: hotel, $4,070.97; railroad, $1,603; cigars and cigarets, $249.55; ginger ale, $115; State Liquor Commission, $310.80. Governor Brann took to the radio to explain that his guests, including 150 newsmen, had been invited strictly to publicize Maine's resort attractions, that his Development Commission figured the State had got $600,000 worth of publicity out of the junket. Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate F. Harold Dubord made much of the fact that Ulysses S. Grant...
Roared Governor Brann: "Governor Landon was quoted as saying that he is coming here to 'rededicate the State of Maine' to the GOP. It appears to me . . . that the Republican leadership really is rededicating the State of Maine to the domination of America's three wealthiest families...
Meantime Republicans were concentrating their energies in pointing out to Democrat Brann's Republican friends that votes for him would vastly injure Alf Landon in the nation. Their new slogan: "A vote for Brann is a vote for the New Deal." Indignantly the Governor summoned reporters, barked: "The New Deal is not an issue in this campaign. This is a State campaign...
Racketeer & Rebuttal. No sooner had Governor Landon left his Portland microphone, than Governor Brann stepped up to one in the State House at Augusta for a well-advertised "rebuttal." Boomed he: "I ask Governor Landon whether he sanctions contributions made from the wealthiest men of the nation to the Republican State Committee. I ask him if he sanctions the contributions made by J. P. Morgan...