Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrival in Indianapolis Nominee Landon was booed only in the city's Negro section, heartily cheered elsewhere. That evening the Indianapolis Coliseum, was jammed to its 14,000-seat capacity. When the Nominee rose to speak he got the warmest ovation of his campaign. It was a full seven minutes before the wildly yelling crowd would let him begin his long-awaited pronouncement on foreign relations. Twenty-nine times in the course of the 24-minute speech, on which he and his advisers had been working all summer, his audience broke in with applause or cheers...
With the votes of New Deal haters in his pocket at the outset, Nominee Landon planned and began his campaign last summer as a temperate appeal to middle-of-the-roaders who liked most New Deal promises, were dissatisfied with New Deal performance. For a time his restrained New Deal criticism contrasted strangely with the rampant New Deal damnation of his Vice-Presidential running mate, his National Chairman...
Last September Republican managers, alarmed at an August slump in his popularity, persuaded Nominee Landon to begin a "fighting campaign." Bit by bit his temper rose; his attacks grew stern, next vigorous, next angry. As the campaign entered its final week, they reached full fury. Not Frank Knox, not John Hamilton had ever shouted a blacker, more fearful prophecy of the doom in store for the U. S. if Alf Landon should fail of election than did Alf Landon himself when, at Baltimore this week, he cried...
...next week's Presidential election, Socialist Laborite John W. Aiken of Chelsea, Mass. has the distinction of expecting the fewest votes from the U. S. electorate. Though it claims to be the oldest established radical party in the land and has had a ticket in every Presidential campaign since 1892, the Socialist Labor party polled only 33,276 votes...
...wife is president of New York's W. C.T. U. Therefore he needed little preparation when he started out on his campaign on a platform opposing inflation, lotteries, Communism, crime, high taxes, war, and, above all, alcohol. Since he left his Manhattan home in June, he has traveled 25,000 miles in Pullman cars, visited 31 States, has only let five days pass without at least one speech. In some 300 addresses he has driven home his point that the Prohibition Party is the only party that "recognizes God as the source of good Government...