Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Staff Work. This year the political firm of Roosevelt, Farley & Co. approaches the November election in a high state of hope. The head of the firm, despite sporadic booing, remains extraordinarily popular with customers who must be resold. His health holds up as well as his glowing confidence. His campaign will be simple: "Things are getting better & better. We planned it that way. Let's have four years more of Democratic Recovery." The Party debt has been cleared away and millions of voters living on government bounty will not be allowed to forget who feeds them. And, above...
...were a Democrat the sheet would be white. Under the Congressman's name are the returns at the last election, the results of all polls and straw votes, public or private, taken in that district. There is the date of the primary, a line marked Chief Basis of Campaign with notations such as "Age of Opponent," "Roosevelt Policies," "Townsend Plan." Space is left for answers to such questions as: "What is the reaction to WPA?" "What is the least satisfactory Government bureau?" Finally the political background and record of the Congressman are summarized...
...counties in the U. S. voted in 1934, by tables showing how every Congressman voted on New Deal bills. It is simple for Mr. Hurja to find out from these records how deserving of patronage is any politician, how badly he needs help from Party headquarters in his campaign for reelection, how much help he has given the Party in the past...
...pages and tells the Democratic high command: "We have this State sure-waste no effort on it." "We are certainly going to lose that State-ignore it." "Now here's a doubtful State that may be won or lost!" To Boss Farley who directs the flow of campaign funds, to the President who has a speech to make, a WPA project to announce, such advice is invaluable...
...last week there had never been a Japanese election in which the party favored by the Government failed to win. After ten years of this, popular apathy was such that in the present general election campaign many candidates rode out to rural constituencies to find the halls hired for their speeches quite empty...