Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Made by special permission as a semi-public document, the film was withheld from release by Mr. Roosevelt until after Election Day lest it seem that he was exploiting his official home for campaign purposes. Sound-track was made in only a few scenes, used in none, and wise Press Secretary Steve Early warned his chief against lip readers in the audience. Against the White House background are portrayed in swift review the main events of the Roosevelt administration, down to and through this year's Election...
...this spendthrift energy produced, beside mob cheers and showers of torn paper, just two addenda to the history of the campaign of 1936. One was the emergence of the Social Security Act as a prime issue. Capitalizing their belated discovery that the 1% tax on wages which goes into effect next January to begin a sinking fund of some $40,000,000,000 for workers' annuities was a vote getter for Republicans (TIME, Nov. 2), Governor Landon and his cohorts hammered it home, while Franklin Roosevelt & friends cried "Shame," "Falsehood," "Coercion...
...campaign language it quickly boiled down to a simple matter of contradiction. Said Republicans: "Wage earners, you will pay and pay in taxes taken out of your pay envelopes, in taxes added to the things you buy-and when you are very old, you will have an I. O. U. which the U. S. Government may make good if it is still solvent." Said Democrats: "Workers, you will get something for nothing. The boss will have to pay much more than you do, and when you grow old, we will...
...summary, it is heartening to realize that the crawling parasites whose tentacles had wound around parties and platforms alike during the fevered days of the campaign, have been cast off and stamped under the heel of the voters of America. Their end was gain, their methods vicious lies or nebulous promises. But their days are numbered, and their sway ended. The Coughlins, Curleys, Lemkes, Smiths and others have been discarded to the rubbish heap of American opinion. Is it too much to dream that America will keep them there? Dare we hope that we will remain as free of these...
Phillips Packing, having lost money-in spite of its cheap canned soup campaign-in the first quarter, cleared $143,706 in the second quarter, upped the figure to $861,365 for the third quarter. Boomed Soup-man Albanus Phillips in issuing his statement: "Please bear in mind . . . that I do not wish to commit the company to the issuance of quarterly statements...