Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first hole on the Tam-0'Shanter Golf Course 75,000 Pennsylvanians and Ohioans were gathered to hear the first Landon campaign speech in the East. While Nominee Landon was shaking hands with his relatives of all degrees and kissing his 83-year-old great-aunt so lustily that he knocked her hat off, the crowd was treated to another spectacle: Onetime Senator David Reed and onetime Governor Gifford Pinchot, Republican arch-enemies in Pennsylvania, marched out on the speaker's platform, shook hands and were photographed together. Harvey Taylor, Pennsylvania's Republican Chairman, introduced the speaker...
...north to Chautauqua. N. Y., where his parents used to take him every summer, where he met his first wife. After dinner with a dozen old friends, he motored to the familiar grounds and in the opensided amphitheatre delivered his second political speech, interjecting a new issue in the campaign. Excerpts: ''In view of the great contribution Chautauqua has made to American Life, I was glad to accept your invitation to speak...
...Senate. He is also about its most independent. Nominally a Republican, he has given vast aid and comfort to the New Deal in the last three years. Up for renomination in the September primary, Senator Couzens is opposed by Michigan's onetime Governor Wilbur M. Brucker. Refusing to campaign for his seat, the onetime partner of Henry Ford went off for a yacht cruise, remarking: "I don't intend to compete with Brucker. If the people are dissatisfied with my work, I shall be content to stand aside." Back in Detroit last week, rich and radical Senator Couzens...
First was to Senator Robert M. LaFollette of Wisconsin who had invited him to a Progressive conference in Chicago: "In this campaign we must choose between President Roosevelt or Governor Landon. . . . For the liberals to split their votes is merely to play into the hands of the Wall Street gang. I have the utmost respect for the Union ticket candidate [z. e., William Lemke] and for Father Coughlin, whose program of monetary reform is sound. . . . However, I think the defeat of Landon is of the utmost importance to the great masses of America. . . ." Second telegram was to Franklin Roosevelt...
Farmers in the Drought area last week could be thankful that this is a campaign year. Next week both Democratic and Republican Presidential nominees will join to give the farmers' plight their best attention when they meet at Des Moines...