Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political pundits, politicians, columnists, editorial writers and even members of the President's own circle of advisers vied with each other over the vital point of whether Government spending was 1) the best cure for or 2) a chief cause of Recession, practical developments in the pump-priming campaign were as follows...
...When the campaign began, all three candidates by tacit consent tried to shun the one big State issue which might have made the campaign more complex: the trans-Florida ship canal, which north Florida wants, and south Florida fears. But by last week. Claude Pepper, deciding most of his votes will come from north Florida anyway, told citizens of that section he was strong for the canal, accused Messrs. Sholtz & Wilcox of "pussyfooting...
...LaFollette studied the campaign of Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressives in 1912, and the Populists in 1892," he said, "and decided that that was not the way to go about it; but if he could throw the election into the House of Representatives, then there would be a favorable opportunity for skillful leadership...
...campaign that followed, Candidate Igoe made the most of whatever degree of White House partiality was shown by the facts that Assistant Attorney General Joe Keenan journeyed to Illinois to speak on his behalf and that pink-whiskered Senator James Hamilton Lewis gave him his public support. Candidate Lucas, who voted against Roosevelt on the Wages-&-Hours Bill, parried by sticking to the local issue of "Throw out the Bosses." In last week's balloting, as early reports came in from the metropolitan districts, Candidate Igoe rolled up an impressive lead of 70,000 votes which began to dwindle...
...save the Constitution." As he projected himself back into the days when first he heard those words, the Vagabond remembered the noisy campaign, with the bandying of "liberty," "democracy," and the "American form of government." He remembered the crowds, the noise, and the national frenzy that rose to a fever pitch one warm November day, and then subsided. He remembered hearing that golden voice as it swore to "preserve, protect, and defend" the Constitution. He remembered all these things--and then, as if in echo, he heard again, "We must take action to save the Constitution from the court...