Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very unfortunate to try to bring religion into this campaign," declared New Deal-hating Publisher Paul Block last week in a signed editorial in which he tried to bring religion into the campaign by asserting that President Roosevelt had drafted New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman to run for re-election in an effort to snare the State's Jewish vote...
...Manhattan next day religion got into the campaign in a bigger way. Week before the New York World-Telegram had reported that a charge of anti-Semitism was being whispered against Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, based on assertions that Jews were ignored at the Cleveland convention, that no Jew had sat on the dais with the new chairman at a post-convention banquet for him in Manhattan. Last week newshawks asked John Hamilton about the rumors. Obviously primed with his points, if not with his metaphors, the jut-jawed Republican Chairman barked: "There is not an iota...
Chairman Hamilton charged that a Democratic whispering campaign against both him and Governor Landon had been in progress for three weeks. In the East Jews were being told that he and the Governor were anti-Semites. In the West anti-Semites were being told that the Governor's middle name, Mossman, proved his Jewish descent...
Chairman Hamilton proceeded to point out that a longtime law partner of his had been a Jew, that long before the current campaign began he had hired a Jew as his secretary. "Governor Landon," cried he, "is just as tolerant as I am. . . . The religious issue has no part in a campaign. It involves the very basic elements of our form of government and jeopardizes the very foundations of the Constitution. But jeopardizing the Constitution is nothing to the New Dealers, who have been jeopardizing it now for nearly four years...
Last week, with Franklin Roosevelt's second Presidential campaign about to start. Ray Moley was far from the side of his old friend and patron. Distinctly cold to the President's Tax Bill (TIME, March 23), increasingly chummy with those whom Franklin Roosevelt chooses to call "economic royalists," Dr. Moley has frequently in Vincent Astor's Today warned the New Deal to reef its sails. Last week Editor Moley used Dr. George Gallup's latest Institute of Public Opinion poll showing Governor Landon to have an electoral majority (TIME, July 20) as a peg on which...