Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noon the great eleven-car campaign train, with the President's car Pioneer as caboose, pulled out of Washington. Aboard were nearly 100 persons, including the Nominee's wife, his Secretary of Agriculture, his private secretaries, Senators O'Mahoney, Wheeler, Pittman, newshawks and cameramen...
Last week Democratic Chairman Farley appointed Joseph E. Davies, Wilsonian chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, to be vice-chairman and executive committee chairman of the Democratic National Campaign Committee. Washington wiseacres who believe that rich and regal Mrs. Marjorie Post Hutton Davies would dearly love to become an Ambassador's lady conceded that her husband could not have picked a likelier apprenticeship...
Topeka gave Alf Landon a send-off for the first time when he set out last week on his fourth & penultimate campaign tour. Arriving at the railroad station one rainy evening, he found the local branch of the Landon Business Women's League lustily singing We're from Sunny Kansas...
...Chicago Stadium that night, Nominee Landon found the best-organized, most enthusiastic crowd of his campaign. Twenty-five thousand Republicans bobbed to their feet, 25,000 voices roared, 25,000 U. S. flags were waved as he stepped out on the platform. Inspired, the Nominee responded with the best speaking of his career. Hardly a trace of the schoolboyish drone with which he began his campaign appeared as the Nominee masterfully set his audience laughing and booing at Franklin Roosevelt's 1932 demands for economy, went on to attack his opponent with forceful conviction: "As for his assurances that...
...route to Columbus Nominee Landon stopped for a rear-platform talk at Cincinnati's Winton Place station, asked the crowd if this were not "the most cockeyed campaign you ever saw?" Pointing to the number of times his opponents had used the phrase "red herring," he declared that the "great granddaddy of all red herrings in the present campaign" was the charge "that I have dodged issues." Thereupon Nominee Landon disposed of that charge by declaring that Prohibition should be settled by the states...