Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...testimonial to the potency of its ideas or its tireless agitation. Enormously flattered were Communists last week to find politicians and patriots throughout the land uniting to catapult them into the headlines, make the espousal or denial of their ideals a major issue in the 1936 Presidential campaign...
...fighting tones, the nominee trumpeted to New York's Democratic State Convention at Syracuse: "Tonight you and I join forces for the 1936 campaign. . . . I need not tell you there will be- there are-many false issues. In that respect, this will be no different from other campaigns. Partisans, not willing to face realities, will drag out red herrings-as they have always done-to divert attention from the trail of their own weaknesses...
...this campaign another herring turns up. In former years it has been British or French-and a variety of other things. But this year it is Russian. Desperate in mood, angry at failure, cunning in purpose, individuals and groups are seeking to make Communism an issue in an election where Communism is not a controversy between the two major parties. Here and now, once and for all, let us bury that red herring and destroy that false issue. . . . I have not sought, I do not seek, I repudiate the support of any advocate of Communism or of any other alien...
...John D. M. Hamilton tried to make the Spanish revolution an issue of the campaign by reviving his Dubinsky challenge. He issued a resounding "reply" to Nominee Roosevelt's Syracuse speech in which he plumped solidly for the Spanish Fascists by crying: "How long, Mr. Roosevelt, do you intend to affront the voters of America by retaining as one of your Presidential electors ... a man who rendered financial aid to Communists in Spain so that they might continue to horrify the civilized world with their murders of clergymen and their pillaging of churches...
...Terre Haute, Ind., birthplace of the late great Radical Eugene V. Debs and scene last year of a general strike, Police Chief James C. Yates announced that Communist Presidential Nominee Earl Browder would not be allowed to make a scheduled campaign speech in the city. In Chicago, proceeding without delay to cash in on the publicity and sympathy sure to accrue from such tactics, the No. 1 U. S. Red flashed off telegrams to President Roosevelt and Indiana's Governor Paul V. McNutt protesting violation of "the most elementary democratic principles," swiftly entrained for Terre Haute. Chief Yates...