Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite the vain objections of absentee, campaigning Democratic committeemen, Mr. Dies's duty next led him into California affairs. Chief witness from that State was Harper Knowles, who is chairman of the State American Legion's Radical Research Committee. Mr. Knowles is on leave from his job as secretary to the Associated Farmers, an antiunion organization headed by Philip Bancroft, Republican candidate for Senator. Mr. Knowles declared that John G. Clark, Democratic State Campaign Committee chairman, and Ellis Patterson, Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor, are Communist Party members; that Culbert Olson, Democratic candidate for Governor, and Sheridan Downey...
Next week, when the ballots are counted on election evening, the political campaign of 1938 will be embalmed in history. This week it is on its way to the undertaker's. Shrewd politicians have already sized up its career, and are drawing lessons from it for the future...
...families, each of which was required to have a minimum of eight members, sailed to the Libyan coast on steamships which had seen heavy service shuttling troops and wounded from Italy to Spain and Ethiopia and back. Heads of the families were either veterans of the Ethiopian campaign or stanch Fascist Party members. Many of the women were big with child. Three infants had been delivered on the Genoa docks. Trucks, provided for each family by the Government, rumbled each family to its new home. These were 25-to-75-acre farms, laid out by Government engineers, completely equipped with...
...Minnesota, where Farmer-Labor Governor Elmer Austin Benson has been branded a friend of "Reds" in his campaign for reelection, most of the newspapers have frankly slanted news and headlines to favor his youthful, gladhanding, Republican opponent, Harold E. Stassen. (A notable exception: the Cowles-owned Minneapolis Star.) The angry Governor did not help matters by declaring that every daily paper in the State was a liar except the Willmar (Kandiyohi County) Tribune (circulation: 4,562). Ordinary newshawks took this as a slur at their bosses rather than themselves, gratefully remembered that friendly Elmer Benson as a U. S. Senator...
Last week a committee of 51 reporters, copyreaders, rewritemen in Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth broke journalistic taboos by publishing a pink-covered campaign booklet called "Deadline," crammed with the pro-Benson opinions their papers did not want. First edition ran to 100,000 copies. Excerpts: "We've written about Gov. Elmer Benson for two years. We know he is going forward. . . . The Red menace was a red herring. And smelled even fishier...