Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Victory Parade." At 7:45 p. m. on the last night of the campaign Nominee Landon's special train chuffed into Portland. Governor Brann was at the station to greet him, hand him a Maine fishing license. A whooping torchlight parade escorted him to the Municipal Stadium. There, a thick, cold mist had wet the folding chairs of his 15,000 auditors. Stepping out in his new fighting role, Alf Landon kept warm by shaking his clenched fist, pounding his reading desk with unaccustomed belligerency. His audience, chilled and uncomfortable as the one in Buffalo last month, was equally...
Thus Chairman Farley was able to release in Manhattan simultaneously with the Senate Committee's release in Washington a list revealing the following contributions to Maine's Republican campaign chest: Pierre S. du Pont, $5,000; Lammot du Pont, $5,000; Irenee du Pont, $5,100; Henry B. du Pont. $2,500; A. Felix du Pont. $5,000; John D. Rockefeller, $5,000; John D. Rockefeller Jr., $5,000; Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr., $3,000; Avery Rockefeller, $8,000; J. Pierpont Morgan, $5,000; Alfred P. Sloan Jr., $5.000; A. Atwater Kent...
...Maine, dismayed Republicans scurried to State House files for a list of Democratic contributors in 1932, found the document had been destroyed. Loudly they protested against the Senate Committee's failure to reveal Democratic contributors to the current campaign. But Democrats outshouted them...
...Democrat Brann's Republican friends that votes for him would vastly injure Alf Landon in the nation. Their new slogan: "A vote for Brann is a vote for the New Deal." Indignantly the Governor summoned reporters, barked: "The New Deal is not an issue in this campaign. This is a State campaign...
...course of his current 22,000-mile campaign tour, Republican Vice Presidential Nominee Frank Knox arrived one day last fortnight in Allentown, Pa. Having asserted within the week that Franklin Roosevelt was leading the U. S. toward Communism and that the nation would be better off today if it had had no Government at all since 1932, Alf Landon's First Mate proceeded to continue his discussions of the New Deal in the same tone and temper. To Allentown's sober citizens he boomed: "I am tired of hearing this nonsense about a choice of the American people...