Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when you conclude that this type of campaigning is necessary in the State which has the highest percentage of illiterates in its population you flee from logic. With our Niggers not voting, as they don't, our electorate is nearly or quite as literate as your own borough of Manhattan. . . . Wouldn't the joint campaign system be as useful in Tammany's domain as among our good white Democrats...
Outside his State, Gene Talmadge is widely regarded as a scraggle-haired, red-gallused, cigar-smoking demagog who, while bawling at the New Deal for being "un-American," has ruled Georgia at the bayonet points of his militia. When the Legislature refused to fulfill his campaign promise of cheap automobile licenses, he created them by executive fiat, booted out his Motor Vehicle Commissioner for refusing to sell them. When the head of the potent State Highway Board refused to dismiss five of his engineers, Talmadge sent militia to seize the Board's funds, declared martial law, ousted the Board...
Traveling in South Dakota, President Roosevelt last week received the resignation of Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde as U. S. Minister to Denmark, accepted it "reluctantly." Mrs. Rohde's reasons for quitting: "To take an active part in the campaign for your re-election." Impressed were observers by the fact that the first U. S. woman to be given such a diplomatic post was more sensitive to the political proprieties than most male Ambassadors and Ministers who think nothing of deserting their official jobs to take the stump...
...President Roosevelt could have had as he started West on his drought-inspection trip that night. By thwacking majorities Mississippi and South Carolina had returned two of the President's most loyal and useful Senators, for each of whom his attachment to the President had been the prime campaign issue...
...turbulent in the history of the U. S. "It was a lusty period," says Claude Gernade Bowers, "by no means so sedate as is the popular impression-a period of marching mobs, of rebellions more brazen than that of Shays, of backstairs gossip and back room intrigues, of whispering campaigns and political assassinations." Last week Historian Bowers, whose current avocation is being U. S. Ambassador to Spain, offered a biography of Jefferson that threw little new light on the great Democrat, but much on the intrigues, incipient rebellions, factional fights that surrounded him. Subtitled The Death Struggle of the Federalists...