Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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County Chairman Patrick A. Nash and Mayor Edward J. Kelly unreservedly called for and worked for the election of the entire Democratic ticket. The straight ticket was emphasized in every phase of the campaign. When inspired rumors of the type familiar in all election campaigns were spread, by the opposition, to the effect that Governor Horner would be slighted, Chairman Nash and Mayor Kelly took the unprecedented action of personally sending to each of the more than 3,500 county precinct workers a telegram reinforcing the party position of wholehearted support for every candidate on the ticket...
True it is that Mayor Kelly included Governor Horner in a pre-election statement endorsing the city, State and National Democratic ticket, but the facts remain that Boss Kelly cut Governor Horner at the Democratic National Convention in June, that Mayor Kelly sat on a campaign platform with Governor Horner just once, that the Kelly-Nash Chicago machine temporarily buried the hatchet with the Horner downstate faction for the single purpose of holding Illinois for the Democracy...
...only one draft of it) she suddenly became aware that the implications of her note might "hurt his feelings." To add a bit of possible salve she accordingly told the President that the "rail fence around your picture looks real pretty." This referred to the pictorial fence bordering the campaign pictures of Hannibal Hamlin and Abraham Lincoln...
...strict cash-politics basis Mr. Davies was not entitled to the job. He gave only $17,500 to the Democratic campaign chest this year, whereas his rival for the job, Curtis Bok, esthetic son of the late great editor of the Ladies' Home Journal, gave $30,000. Moreover, Curtis Bok once worked in a Soviet candy factory and now is judge of an orphans court in Philadelphia. After election, however, Mr. Bok was let know that Franklin Roosevelt did not want any amateur diplomats in big jobs during present international complications. Young Mrs. Bok was given...
...amateur is he. He will be 60 years old this Sunday and nearly 20 years have already elapsed since he was first offered the job of Ambassador to Russia by Woodrow Wilson. In 1912 young Lawyer Joe Davies. Democratic National Committeeman from Wisconsin, ran Woodrow Wilson's western campaign headquarters in Chicago. When Wilson was elected Mr. Davies was made U. S. Commissioner of Corporations, later upped to chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. He was one of the bright young men of the Wilson Administration, and from another of that group he still has an old photograph inscribed...