Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time for all good Governors to come to the aid of their parties. Unfortunately for Alf Landon, aside from himself only eight of the 48 Governors can come to the aid of the Republican Party in the 1936 Presidential campaign. Governor Bridges of New Hampshire and Governor Smith of Vermont are satisfied that their States are already in the Republican bag. On the other hand, Governor Merriam of California, Governor Nice of Maryland and Governor Welford of North Dakota would probably privately concede that their States are in Franklin Roosevelt's bag. Of the three other Republican Governors, Buck...
...York (47 electoral votes). Franklin Roosevelt chose to deliver his first frankly political speech of the campaign (see p. 13) at the Syracuse convention last week which renominated Herbert Lehman for Governor of New York. That nomination was a triumph for Roosevelt rather than Lehman. Lehman, who earnestly wished to retire, was practically bludgeoned into running by fellow Democrats at last summer's National Convention (TIME, July 6). The Democratic high command knew that Franklin Roosevelt's hope of success in his own State was precarious...
...reception recently afforded members of the Landon-Knox club by certain occupants of Dudley Hall arouses a faint feeling of disgust so soon after a tercentenary marked by pledges of continued freedom and liberality. Small-minded bigotry evinced by tearing up campaign literature and hindering members of the Landon-Knox committee from distributing their material only results in the pitying suspicion that certain commuters are as yet not sufficiently mature to enjoy the new-found freedom of Dudley Hall. Perhaps a nursery in the Union would serve their purposes as well...
George Blake, the Communist, declared that the issue in the campaign was the choice between democracy and fascism and that the Communist party represents democracy. "Roosevelt promises all things to all men and is no real progressive," he added. He also attacked the Union party as the illegitimate child of the Liberty League, born over the radio and sired by Hearst...
When the friends of Governor Landon devote a large share of their time and energy to an attempt to prove the "red Sympathies" of President Roosevelt, that tacitly admit that they have no issue in the present campaign and no platform fit to be discussed in front of the American electorate...