Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite his personal limitations, Mr. Hoover's periodic cracks at the Administration supply a valuable part of the campaign strategy. By directing public attention to the gyrations of "the Magician" and his band of "white rabbits", Mr. Hoover puts his finger on the issues on which the campaign will be fought. Though the Supreme court has relieved the Democrats of the hopeless task of defending the NRA and AAA, there still remain unemployment, agriculture, an unbalanced budget, a rising bureaucracy, and "the black magic of a managed currency" to account for. The Hoover speeches have repeatedly raised issues which...
...bickering over the nomination, Mr. Hoover has kept the spotlight on the real problem of showing up the basic fallacies of the New Deal. His recent bursts of oratory have done much to guide the party's policy and to set the Republicans on their feet for a successful campaign...
Though he is making no overt campaign for the Presidency, Senator Arthur Vandenberg in recent weeks has managed to keep himself in the Congressional spotlight with his subtle attacks on the New Deal. Fortnight ago this Michigan Republican finally succeeded in beating efforts to appropriate money for the Florida ship canal (TIME, March 30). Last week he popped up with a modest resolution asking AAA to report the names of all farmers who received more than $10,000 a year in benefit payments...
Biggest question mark confronting both business and the stockmarket was not the extent of the spring rise but what will happen after the rise has run its prosperous course. By that time the business atmosphere may be thickening with campaign politics. There is no sound historical evidence that Presidential-election years are worse for business than other years. But both business and the stockmarket will be almost pathologically conscious of politics...
...settled down in the paymaster department. His experience and his massive self-confidence started him off in the Confederate Army as a brigadier-general. "Six feet tall, broad as a door, hairy as a goat," Longstreet was compact of ambition and stubbornness. The first summer's campaign showed that he was a first-rate defensive fighter but unaggressive and slow on the attack...