Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long history of U. S. political eccentricity, few campaign speeches have been as curious as the one which General Hugh Samuel Johnson delivered to an astonished Cleveland audience last week. The New Deal, declared the onetime No. 2 New Dealer, has made "not one inch of progress" toward solving the farm and unemployment problems. Its work relief program is a "fantastical flop." Its fiscal policies, if unchecked, will result in the "creation of floods of printing press money." Let us therefore, cried the General, re-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...last week 61 South Carolina National Guardsmen marched up to the State Office Building in Columbia, trained machine guns on its entrance. Since taking office in January, 38-year-old Governor Johnston had been trying to make good his campaign promises by attempting to withhold Chief Commissioner Sawyer's salary, appointing new members to the Commission, trying to discharge old ones. Each time he had been balked by statutes and injunctions. "A state of rebellion," he now proclaimed, "exists in the Highway Department...
...fellow's new cloak is blowing in the breeze. Times Square was never so gay since Jimmy Walker and the depression. Then again there's Mayor La Guardia's quiet campaign. Still the best buy for your nickels is to be had at Radio City, "Peter Ibbetson". There's the Auto Show at Grand Central Palace; there's the Horse Show at the Garden; then again "Three Men on a Horse" will be found romping at the Playhouse. But there's always the dawn. And there's the tunnel and there's the highway and there's the game...
Clement Attlee, acting leader of his Majesty's Loyal Opposition in the Labor Party's official campaign manifesto: "The Government has a terrible responsibility for the present international situation. It did nothing to check the aggression of Japan in the Far East and thus seriously discredited the League of Nations and undermined the collective peace system...
...Packard's president (1905-16). Mr. Newberry made a pleasant little splash as T.R.'s Secretary of the Navy (1908-09) and a large unpleasant splash a decade later when he defeated Henry Ford for the U. S. Senate, was accused of buying his seat with excessive campaign expenditures, resigned after he had been exonerated. When Mr. Macauley arrived as Packard's General Manager in 1910, the company was largely owned by the Joys, the Newberrys, the Algers, the McMillans and other First Families of Detroit...