Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hours. But he stood with the New Deal on both the bills Franklin Roosevelt chose to regard as tests of Roosevelt liberalism, Reorganization and the Supreme Court Bill, which Bulkley defended over a nation-wide radio hookup. For this service he received a brief Presidential endorsement in his primary campaign: Franklin Roosevelt spoke of him as "toiling...
...Deal quoted technologists to show that the enormous and soulless modern industrial machine (about which Engineer Herbert Hoover used to worry) throws oldsters on an "economic scrap-heap." Like the New Deal Mr. Downey had an inspiration to do something on behalf of what he calls, for campaign purposes, "our senior citizens." It came at a very timely hour when far cannier politicians were beginning to see the possibility of making pensions for senior citizens a juicier political racket than the ancient political exploitation of pensions for war veterans. Sheridan Downey won California's Democratic nomination for Senator from...
...Elliott of Los Angeles is a political hack, unillusioned, practical, alert. He managed Senator McAdoo's successful campaign in 1932. Perceiving how ebullient Sheridan Downey from northern California (Atherton, hard by Herbert Hoover's Palo Alto) had run ahead of Author Sinclair in the EPIC campaign, Jackson Elliott cocked an eye at him for 1938 because he knew where lay the biggest unstaked bloc of votes for that year-among EPIC and Townsend-conscious oldsters...
...contributions account of Representative David J. Lewis for his unsuccessful campaign to purge Maryland's Senator Millard Tydings, last week revealed sums totaling $17,282 from Liberal Columnist Drew Pearson ("Washington Merry-Go-Round") and his two sisters, Mrs. Barbara Lange of Palo Alto, Calif, and Mrs. Ellen Fogg of Moylan, Pa. One possible explanation of Columnist Pearson's dislike for Senator Tydings: they once courted the same girl, Eleanor Davies Cheeseborough (now Mrs. Tydings...
What had accomplished this was a far-flung campaign of education, legislation, research, highway engineering and traffic training undertaken by the National Safety Council and some two dozen other groups with the backing of the automotive industry through its Automotive Safety Foundation. President of this Foundation is Studebaker's 47-year-old President Paul Gray Hoffman...