Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meanwhile, Senator Robert J. Bulkley, with just one "my good friend'' from the President, was able to win renomination against onetime Governor George White, who was Democratic National Chairman in 1920 and the Jim Farley of Franklin Roosevelt's unsuccessful Vice-Presidential campaign...
...Hattie Caraway, who started her political career as a protégée of Louisiana's Huey Long, was attacked by her Senatorial opponent, Representative John L. ("No Rubber Stamp") McClellan, for furthering it by becoming a yeswoman for Franklin Roosevelt. Placid Widow Caraway's chief campaign plank was that Arkansas is distinguished as the only State to have a woman in the Senate. Arkansas distinguished itself by nominating (i.e., electing) Democrat Caraway again...
...realistic. In 150 years of U. S. history the U. S. has repeatedly told the army that there was no job for it except a little domestic police work, but 25 consecutive years have never gone by without the army's being called on to undertake a campaign, against British, Mexicans, Spanish, Germans, red Indians, or white Southerners. And of the five principal wars the army has been called upon to fight, only one (the Civil War) was fought wholly on U. S. soil...
...Senator, Representative, "officer or employee of the United States" to solicit political funds "from any other such officer, employee or person." Last week while Pennsylvania's Senator Guffey was in Europe, letters over his signature to all WPA workers in Pennsylvania (270,000 of them) solicited campaign funds. Chairman Sheppard of the Senate campaign funds committee said, "At first blush I can't see where this comes under our resolution." Then he blushed again, called a committee meeting to cogitate Senator Guffey's behavior...
Meanwhile, the German press boiled up with its most furious anti-Czechoslovak campaign thus far; Herr Hitler mobilized 1,000,000 men along the eastern frontiers of Germany; and the Czechoslovak Reserve Officers' Association led Prague patriotic groups last week in demanding that the Government call on Czechoslovaks to fight and if necessary suffer bloody defeat, rather than tamely yield even a fraction of the nation's sovereignty...