Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Political machines are fueled by jobs, oiled by the hope of jobs to come. After four years of jobs to burn, the firm of Roosevelt, Farley & Co. entered the 1936 campaign with a machine high-powered, smooth-running, up-to-date. To compete with it, the new firm of Landon & Hamilton inherited a 1932 model apparatus, battered by its last two collisions with the Democratic juggernaut, rusted by inaction and despair. John Hamilton's job came nearer to being one of rebuilding than of repair...
...down with county chairmen of all kinds and he knows the kind of follow-up that will become necessary if he is to have an effective organization. . . . I will be very much surprised if this does not turn out to be about the best managed Republican national campaign since 1896." In his own defense, John Hamilton declares of his Western tour: "If I hadn't made the trip there wouldn't be a Republican organization in that section...
...picture, Scripps-Howard's Columnist Raymond Clapper reported from Chicago: "A vast organization, scattered among three office buildings, had been thrown together hastily. No one was in authority. Co-ordinate heads of divisions were glaring at each other like strange wildcats. They were quarreling over matters of jurisdiction. Campaign literature was being held up by inability to get final okays, or by stubborn refusals to agree to revisions...
Director of Publicity Alfred Henry Kirchhofer, aloof, lantern-jawed managing editor and onetime Washington correspondent of the Buffalo (N. Y.) evening News, was turning out press releases by the thousand, buttons, sunflowers and windshield stickers by the million. Working boss of Hoover publicity in the 1928 campaign, Press-agent Kirchhofer announced when appointed to his current post: "The usual hokum won't go in this campaign...
...campaign functionary was stocky, bespectacled Hill Blackett, president of the potent Chicago advertising firm of Blackett-Sample-Hummert, Inc. Titled Director of Public Relations, his job was to broadcast the Republican message by radio, cinema and billboard...