Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Least willing of all was John L. Lewis, who had even dared on one occasion to campaign for the A. F. of L. presidency against Samuel Gompers himself. In that abortive campaign Mr. Woll had bitterly opposed Mr. Lewis-something which Mr. Lewis never forgot or forgave. Therefore with the aid of other rebels against the dead hand, Mr. Lewis pitch-forked into the nation's No. 1 Labor office, the pink-cheeked secretary-treasurer of his United Mine Workers. So William Green, a quiet, cautious character virtually unknown out side his own union, became and still is, president...
William L. ("Big Bill") Hutcheson, the ponderous president of the Carpenters Union, biggest in A. F. of L. (300,000 members). Perennial campaign head of the Republican Party's labor committee, he quit the executive council in a huff last year when A. F. of L. plumped for Franklin D. Roosevelt. Today Carpenter Hutcheson's power is on the wane, partly because his Republican affiliations are no longer of great value, partly because he lost face after John L. Lewis punched his jaw at the 1935 convention...
...Moore, up for a third term as Governor after time out to be elected to the U. S. Senate (1935-41), was unopposed. A party split made the Republican race more exciting. Backed by Governor Hoffman's once powerful Republican machine was State Senator Clifford R. Powell, whose campaign was run by Mrs. Powell. His opponent, also a State Senator was a Newark Presbyterian pastor, Lester Harrison Clee, who when returns were counted had won the nomination by 247,876 votes to Powell...
...became Speaker of the State House of Representatives, in 1935 forced repeal of a State sales tax for relief money. Macmillan will publish Dr. Glee's The Preacher in Politics this month. Stocky, eloquent, liberal in both his ecclesiastical and political opinions, Dr. Clee will campaign on a platform of clean government and economy. Whether or not he is elected Governor in November may depend largely on how strongly Messrs. Hoffman and Powell live up to their promises to support him in the regular election...
...accidents occur to experienced male adult drivers (over 25 ) going straight in passenger cars in good condition on dry roads in clear daylight, and many are the variations of Arkansas's prophetic Grim Reaper that other States have concocted. They range from Oklahoma City's American Legion campaign this spring (ghosts of 85 dead paraded through the streets), to Ohio's now abandoned white graveyard crosses that marked the scenes of highway fatalities. But accidents increase and States, insurance and tire companies have about given up trying to think up gruesome warnings. The American Automobile Association says...