Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nazarene preacher named S. T. Brogdon, out to be Governor of Texas, closed his campaign for the Democratic nomination last week. So did State Attorney General William McCraw of Dallas, Railroad Commissioner Ernest O. Thompson of Amarillo, Oilman Tom F. Hunter of Wichita Falls, seasoned campaigners all. And so, to the grief of all these gentlemen, did Flour Salesman Wilbert Lee O'Daniel of Fort Worth (TIME, July 25). At Kilgore, on the night before primary day, Candidate O'Daniel struck up his hillbilly band, introduced Children Pat, Molly & Mike, who sang "Please Pass the Biscuits, Pappy," declaimed...
...Once again intolerance has raised its head in the midst of our political picture. ... If Mr. Winrod is nominated for the U. S. Senate, it will again be injected into the national campaign and our party in Kansas will be on the wrong side of a vital issue. . . . Disastrous effects!" Candidate Winrod, in his weekly radiorations over two Kansas stations and in his monthly magazine, The Defender, has made noises like a fascist : taken slaps at Jews and Catholics, gone hard after all Communists. Vowing that he is no fascist, he says: "Fascism is the illegitimate child of Communism...
Most likely beneficiary of this year's Winrod campaign appears to be colorless Democratic Senator George McGill. If Mr. Winrod wins the Republican nomination and leads what Kansas calls its "Brinkley vote"* through the wilderness, many a disgusted Kansas Republican would vote Democratic in November...
...election) without the formality of a runoff. One of the minority who did not vote for Mr. O'Daniel was Mr. O'Daniel. He had not paid his $1.75 poll tax because "no sensible man" would lay out money to vote for politicians. To fulfill his campaign promises, Governor-Nominate'' O'Daniel must find $42,000,000 a year to give every Texan over 65 a $30-per-month pension, and bring tax-wary industry flocking into Texas. Said he: "I'll just take it from the folks that...
...Mexico, handsome Governor Clyde Tingley halted a move to endow a hospital named after his late wife. Reason: the campaign headed by Mrs. Oliver Harriman to endow the Carrie Tingley Crippled Children's Hospital consisted of a lottery...