Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Florida primary campaign began at about the same time as the big-league baseball training season last March, moved in the opposite direction. All three candidates began speaking in the north, on the theory that the south half of the State was too busy to think about politics until the tourists left by April 1. Arriving early in March in Tallahassee, where he and his pretty young wife used to have a suite in the Emilie at the Quintuplet Apartments, Senator Pepper was promptly laid low for two weeks by an attack of grippe. Net consequence was to give...
...Sholtz campaign schedule calls for half-a-dozen speeches a day-two in the morning, one at lunch, two in the afternoon, one at night. A sound truck with a 25-record library precedes him. Another accompanies him to broadcast his speech which lasts only 40 minutes, is always the same. Each of the three candidates by the time they stop touring next week, will have covered all the towns with over 500 population, in Florida's 67 counties. Driving between towns, diligent Candidate Sholtz makes a practice of stopping at every filling station, general store, to distribute...
...home, partly because of a row with Daytona Beach's lady mayor shortly before Sholtz left office in 1937. His votes will come from some of the State's industrialists and their hired help, remnants of his old machine and new friends picked up during his vigorous campaign...
Cracker Boy. Campaign literature which James Mark Wilcox distributes to his listeners includes a brochure modestly describing himself and his achievements. Excerpts: "Born in Willacoochee, Georgia, at the headwaters of Florida's Suwannee River on May 21, 1890. . . . Elected to Congress from the Fourth District in 1932; re-elected in 1934 and 1936. . . . Author of: 'Finance and Taxation Problems of Florida Municipalities.' ... He has frankly and sincerely opposed the Supreme Court Bill . . . the Black-Connery Bill ... the Reciprocal Trade Treaty with Cuba because of its injury to our Florida farmers. . . . Mark Wilcox is a cracker...
Cracker Boy Wilcox has helped crack many a pet project of Franklin Roosevelt. In the midst of his campaign, he scuttled up to Washington to vote against the Reorganization Plan, claimed personal responsibility for defeating it on the grounds that his reports of local feeling caused four other Representatives to change their votes. In Florida's current political cockfight, Cracker Boy Wilcox's chief distinctions so far have been the facts that: 1) he has only one sound truck to two for each of his opponents; 2) his expenses are thus far listed...