Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Campaign...
Having given these firm assurances to the Press in the afternoon, President Roosevelt spent the evening conferring with his campaign managers, Postmaster General Farley, Pressmaster General Michelson, Moneymaster General W. Forbes Morgan, and their underlings...
...morning last week this special chuffed north from Denver to end the great Republican silence. An hour later at La Salle, Governor Landon swung aboard and the GOP campaign was off in a burst of cheers. A few minutes later the nominee's numerous aides and advisers were in consternation when it was discovered that the man in charge of baggage had left standing on the La Salle platform a small bag containing the manuscripts of Alf Landon's speeches...
First stop was at Fort Morgan, Colo., where a thousand people and a brass band surrounded the rear platform. Carefully primed as to his whereabouts, Governor Landon declared: "I am very glad to have the opportunity of starting my campaign in this splendid Republican county of Morgan. . . . There are many things which I would like to talk to you about but time is short. . . ." Chuff-chuff-and the special was on its way to Sterling, where another crowd and another brass band turned out at the station. With "sugar beets" ringing in his ears, Nominee Landon stepped...
...delegates and alternates represented about 25 states. The great majority boarded at tourist camps and lodgings. Poor but loud, they burst into a 17-minute demonstration when Father Charles Edward Coughlin first appeared to "democratize ' his Union, hitherto a one-man show, put steam into its campaign to elect Representative William Lemke U. S. President in November...