Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West for Governor. The tale told in Kansas: no prominent Democrat wanted the thankless job of running against Will West. Finally Secretary of War Harry Woodring and Commissioner of Internal Revenue Guy Helvering, Kansans both, appealed to Huxman, a second-string politician, to make the race. They promised the campaign would cost him nothing, that afterward he would be given a job in Washington with a better salary than the $5,000 a year earned by the Governor of Kansas. On election night Mr. Huxman went to bed happily confident of defeat. He was awakened...
...Legislature, a Democratic Lieutenant Governor, and two Republican Representatives in place of Democrats. Beaver-bearded George Holden Tinkham, who has spent the last 21 of his 66 years as Republican Representative from the Democratic city of Boston, returned home day before election in time to vote. As usual in campaign years, he had nonchalantly spent abroad, in Berlin, Rome, Bucharest, the weeks during which his Democratic opponent was berating him. This year, when the votes were counted, he was found to have beaten his opponent nearly...
...114th day of this year's Spanish Civil War, the Radical Madrid Cabinet were driven to flee from the capital last week by the conquering White Armies of singularly humorous and carefree Francisco Franco, a commander who even in the darkest days of his campaign surprised correspondents by keeping up an ebullient and ever-smiling mien to be compared only to that of President Roosevelt...
Died. Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett, 57, famed British criminal lawyer, three weeks ago named chairman of the London Court of Sessions; after collapsing at a Greyhound Racing Association dinner at the moment he was joking about his weight (252 lb.); in London. In his only (1924) campaign for Parliament, he promised to kiss each of the 16,269 women constituents of Chelmsford, was elected...
After their campaign labors, the following politicians made or planned the following moves: Pennsylvania's Governor George Howard Earle, to Delray. Fla. for deep-sea fishing. New York's Governor Herbert Henry Lehman, to Williamstown, Mass, to watch his son Peter and the Williams freshman football team lose 12-to-0 to the Wesleyan freshmen. Governor Lehman's defeated rival, William Francis Bleakley, back to his law practice at Yonkers, N. Y. Michigan's Governor-elect Frank Murphy, a flight to the Philippines. Massachusetts' Senator-elect Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., to Bermuda. Democratic Boss James...