Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was generally assumed to mean that the dissident Democrats would vote, and perhaps campaign, for Alf M. Landon. But by the time their telegram, in preparation since March 9, had been made public, there were two standards to which Al Smith & Co. could rally...
...Philadelphia, "General" Farley refused all comment except to snap when asked if the new party had changed Democratic campaign plans: "Why should...
...Last year when the "grassroots" liberals demanded a voice in preparing for the battle of 1936, Hamilton was made assistant to the Chairman of the National Republican Committee at a salary of $15,000 a year. He was no Landon-backer in the early months of the pre-convention campaign. For a time he flirted with Frank Knox. but finally made up his mind, resigned his job in Washington and took the job of managing Landon at a salary of $800 a month...
First Plunge- With lines of fatigue still written on his face from his Cleveland campaign, John Hamilton last week alighted from a plane at Newark to start the Republican campaign in the East. Asked why he had chosen Manhattan he replied with a grin, "Mostly because I want to see the Louis-Schmeling fight...
...chairmen. He proposed to work, he told them, strictly through their organization. He wanted to meet and handshake their district leaders, whom he amazed by knowing their first names. He aid he proposed to see each & every one of the Party's 3,000 county chairmen before this campaign was over. They were the boys who must win for him. He knew. He had been...