Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having gone through a grueling Presidential campaign last fall, Los Angeles had little wind left for its municipal primary last month, still less for its runoff election last week in which Mayor Frank Lawrence Shaw was returned to office for four more years with a majority of 25,000 votes over his opponent, County Supervisor John Anson Ford...
...candidates did their best campaigning in the Los Angeles Daily News Editor Manchester Boddy saved himself a lot of trouble by giving them each a battle column after the fashion of the New York News in the last Presidential campaign...
...policies, Mr. Shaw, why do the labor-baiting Los Angeles Times, the howling Hearst press, the local Liberty Leaguers, the Partisan non-partisan Republicans, the professional patriots, the underworld forces and all the reactionary elements, which in 1936 waged a slanderous, slimy, insolent, stupid and disastrous communistic campaign against President Roosevelt, plus a few nominal Democrats of mercenary inclination, now wage precisely the same sort of campaign against me and in support of you, as they supported Merriam in 1934 and Landon...
Best laugh of the campaign was provided by a widely circulated picture showing grey, bespectacled Mayor Shaw seated in an automobile with President & Mrs, Roosevelt with the National Capitol in the background. The picture's caption: "This heretofore unpublished photo shows President and Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Los Angeles' dynamic Mayor, Hon. Frank L. Shaw, motoring near the National Capitol during Mayor Shaw's recent visit in Washington." Candidate Ford offered "final and conclusive" proof that Mayor Shaw had not motored with the Roosevelts in Washington, that a picture taken when Mayor Shaw rode through...
...Brooklyn's big Jewish Hospital, one Margaret Rhatigan, was discharged last October. Declaring that Dr. Morris Hinenburg, a young man who had become director of the hospital only six months prior, had dismissed her because she was trying to unionize the employes, Mrs. Rhatigan began an organization campaign which culminated in March when 200 cooks, dishwashers, laundresses, electricians, slop women and orderlies put on a sit-down strike in the hospital's kitchens, pantries and ice plant. Babies cried because their wet diapers were not changed. Doctors and nurses were obliged to go to public restaurants for their...