Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lady with arthritis lived on Brookline Street and had a name that began with a V and looked as well back-wards as it did forwards. She finally decided that it was she whom they were looking for and hobbled in to the back seat. She interrupted the campaign fight talk by saying. "I know, I know! I'm thpothed to wote for Thalberg, I mean Thaltenberg. He'th a good man. I always wote for the Wepublicanth. They alwayth good men." She was given an already marked ballot for safety, however, to guide her. In the polls she took...
Perhaps it all started when the Vagabond read a candidate's campaign promise that he "would live up to the ideals of 'Veritas'." And all at once the Vagabond felt a blind fury sweep over him as he realized that it had come to this, that the ideal for which men had crossed the ocean, faced hunger, pestilence, and every sort of privation and danger, had now become a cheap symbol to be handed about at election rallies...
Remarking that he had maligned no individual, he apologized for his "outspokenness" in the campaign and said, "but I could not do otherwise. I, as a person, do not matter in this fight. Someone has to be the target for ridicule, for insinuation, for libel...
...dingy caucus room of the old House Office Building railroad presidents laid bare the shambles of railroad economics, railroad labor representatives snarled that labor was not to blame, should not pay the penalty. Meanwhile, the rival groups issued reams of charts, figures and opinions. Apex of the managements' campaign was a nationwide splash of advertising. Apex for labor was a 482-page, clothbound book (each copy stamped with the recipient's name in gold letters) dedicated to Franklin Roosevelt and titled Main Street-Not Wall Street. Last week "Main Street...
...Under Plan E", he said, "city employees will be responsible only to the city manager and not to every Tom, Dick and Harry in the City Council." A fight for clean government, Landis felt, was the real issue of the campaign...