Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the quadrennial campaign for that job began under such extraordinary circumstances that even New Yorkers felt like voters in wonderland. For it appeared that 1) when they go to the polls on Nov. 2, they may find no Tammany candidate for mayor, and 2) if there is a Tammany candidate, he may well be found on the Republican ticket...
Dinner guests at the Chicago home of Hill Blackett, Public Relations Director for the Republican National Committee during the 1936 campaign, were Alfred Mossman Landon and Colonel Frank Knox. Said Mr. Landon, "We hardly had a chance to get acquainted during the campaign. We were too busy...
...Capitol the Governor's words were taken to have but one meaning, that Franklin Roosevelt had determined to punish Mr. Van Nuys for daring to oppose him. Burning with anger, most of the Democratic Senators opposed to the bill promptly volunteered to go to Indiana and campaign for Mr. Van Nuys next year. Their anger soon rose to greater heights. Day before the Robinson funeral, the President wrote a letter to Senator Barkley who was spending the day at Hysong's funeral parlor...
...Fund for Life Insurance ($26,000,000). Most of these companies' investments and other assets are held at their headquarters in Philadelphia. Protesting that they were mortally threatened, the life insurance companies talked of moving to suburban Ardmore or Bryn Mawr, launched against the tax a high-pressure campaign seldom equalled in Philadelphia except by the bumptious mayor himself (TIME...
With his anti-syphilis campaign in this state of successful momentum Surgeon General Parran turned to Cancer. Before Congress were bills for a Federal institute to concentrate on this second most common cause" of death in the nation (TIME, July 5), Dr. Parran went up the Hill...