Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...named "Kansas," he opened one eye to a slit, then grinned at the gawping newshawks. In a few moments wires throughout the U. S. carried the news of how the Democratic and Republican nominees for the Presidency would meet in the midst of the campaign, discuss the non-political subject of Drought. To find an historical precedent, oldsters had to go back to 1896 when William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan, both out stumping, met by chance in a small Nebraska town...
...national election since 1860 have politicians been so Negro-minded as in 1936. There were 32 blackamoor delegates and alternates at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia last June. Fortnight ago, after much soul-searching, Democratic National Chairman James A. Farley picked his Negro campaign managers. Last week the Republicans completed their slate of Negro managers. Estimates of the amount of money both parties will spend to corral the Negro vote before election day ran as high...
...even more beset than the Democrats by Negro politicians like Perry Howard of Mississippi, Roscoe Conkling Simmons of Illinois and Robert R. Church of Memphis, Tenn., oldtimers who for years have been accustomed to make a four-year living from the profits of running each Republican campaign. Republican National Chairman John Hamilton, avoiding the worst pitfalls, chose Rev. Mr. Lacey Kirk Williams, parson of the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church in Chicago and president of the Victory Mutual Life Insurance Co.. to head the Republican Negro drive in the West. Unlike most of the other important Negroes...
...plane in Chicago, set out on a twelve-day trip through 16 States west of the Mississippi. Like a swiftly moving piece upon a checkerboard, the plane zig-zagged across Minnesota, the Dakotas, Montana, Colorado, Wyoming and settled down one afternoon last week at Salt Lake City.* Thus the campaign manager of the Presidential nominee who had declared for a sound currency "convertible into gold" arrived in the heart of the silver country...
...Negro William Christopher Handy, "Father of the Blues," was hired to write a song booming the first Crump mayoral campaign (TIME...