Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Through Secretary Stephen Early, President Roosevelt cracked Publisher William Randolph Hearst for bringing the Red issue into the campaign...
Like a fire-engine lolloping home from a blaze, the Landon campaign special last week retired in leisurely fashion from New England whither it had gone for the Maine election (TIME, Sept. 21). First, motoring to Nashua, N. H. to board his train, Alf Landon stopped at the roadside to buy a 25? basket of apples, saying tactfully, "I have heard so much about your New England apples." Ignorantly he picked a basket of handsome Gravensteins thereby causing natives, who think their Mclntoshes tastier, to raise their eyebrows...
...fervid Buchmanite rushed to the platform and handed up a sheet of paper bearing a campaign song...
...with a Presidential candidate of their own, are this year hoping & praying for the re-election of Franklin Roosevelt. Their declaration for him has been delivered obliquely in the form of statements by Nominee Earl Browder and other Red leaders that the No. 1 Communist objective in the current campaign is to "defeat the Landon-Hearst-Liberty League reaction" (TIME, July 6). That objective stemmed from a shift in Communist world strategy decided at Moscow last year. Reds in every land were to cease their partisan sniping, work for a "People's Front" of all Liberals and Labor...
...time had come, decided the Democratic Presidential nominee last week, to break his silence on the Red issue, simultaneously strike a hard blow at his prime journalistic foe. A new Hearst campaign against him, he learned, was to begin on Sunday. Few hours after his return to the White House from Harvard on Saturday, the President issued a strategic statement over the signature of his Assistant Secretary Stephen Early...