Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt with his noisiest opposition. After almost 40 years the Hearst crusades have grown stale with custom and the Hearst political influence is uniformly discounted by experienced observers. But, win or lose next week, Publisher Hearst himself is sure of a place in the history of the 1936 campaign. It was he who "discovered" Alf Landon, put him on the nation's front page (TIME, Sept. 9, 1935, et seq.). It was he who originated the Red Issue, won a personal attack from the White House (TIME, Sept. 28). Finally, as ultimate testimony to his symbolic stature...
Volunteers. One feature of the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune'?, (circulation: 317,000) campaign to put Franklin Roosevelt out of the White House has been the exhaustive coverage it has given to the least utterance of Publisher Ogden Reid's cousin. Hoover Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Mills. Another has been the behavior of its distinguished columnists-the lamentation of Mark Sullivan, the oscillation of Dorothy Thompson, the tergiversation of Walter Lippmann. Another has been its feature, ''The Roosevelt Record," a disparaging comparison of Roosevelt promise and performance syndicated to 18 other papers...
...home with Governor Landon and the children. What an infinitely calm, reassuring and soothing picture this presents!" Provincial Partisans. As they do the year round, the great metropolitan news papers and chains have set the pace for the rest of the nation's daily press during the campaign. Of the lesser chain publishers, peripatetic Paul Block, with seven dailies in his pocket, has pattered in the footsteps of William Randolph Hearst...
Power of the Press? The campaign's loneliest newspapers have been the three famed Democratic journals which renounced Franklin Roosevelt-the Baltimore Sun, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Omaha World-Herald. Not one has found much solace in 1936 Republicanism...
...pointed this week to continued German economic tightrope dancing of a vaguely conservative and vaguely orthodox character under the Great Extemporizer, Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank and Minister of Economics. Last April, when the Nazi radicals had been working up for several months within the Party a campaign to force dismissal of Dr. Schacht, General Göring abruptly took Germany's fiscal wizard under his hulking personal protection, and last week Adolf Hitler erected this state of affairs into a German institution with imposing trappings. Another reason for Göring's appointment to rule...