Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that, Democratic National Chairman James A. Farley, who so far in this campaign has been nearly as oblivious of John Hamilton's existence as of Alexander Hamilton's, broke down and roared: "Chairman Hamilton's statement . . . is just as ridiculous as other statements he has made during the last few weeks. His statement . . . is an insult to the intelligence of the American people...
...propagandizing for Repeal. Keeping a finger in national politics, he organized a Landon-for-President movement in Manhattan long before the conventions, visited Alf M. Landon in Topeka before his nomination. Unimpressed by the Ottinger "Landon Clubs" John Hamilton pointedly neglected them when he organized the Landon pre-convention campaign in New York...
Franklin Roosevelt's face was not slapped by Georgia because about two Democrats out of every three plumped for Senator Russell and the New Deal. In his campaign for Governor two years ago Talmadge carried 156 of Georgia's 159 counties. On last week's electoral vote, which actually did the nominating, he carried only 16. The first political defeat in the earthy, cigar-chewing, gallus-wearing demagog's career, it sounded what most observers regarded as taps for Talmadge. With unwonted dignity Governor Talmadge ruefully declared: "I am in good health, in the prime...
...Disillusioned by "President Roosevelt's faithlessness to the Democratic platform of 1932,"Mrs. Dwight F. Davis, who as Mrs. Charles H. Sabin worked for Roosevelt and Repeal in 1932, announced in New York that she will campaign this year for Governor Landon. Said she: "He will encourage thrift and self-reliance and will not sneer at success...
...Disillusioned by handouts at a publicspeaking class in Manhattan's Women's National Republican Club, Mrs. Charles S. Whitman, wife of New York's onetime (1915-18) Republican Governor, announced that she will campaign this year for President Roosevelt. Said she: "Even in Newport I found a number of people whispering behind closed doors that they were in favor of Roosevelt...