Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next August against old, unreconstructed Senator Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith. Trumpeted Governor Johnston: "During my administration as Governor of South Carolina I have backed the reforms and policies of President Roosevelt 100%. In South Carolina . . . the policies of the New Deal . . . have lost none of their popularity. My campaign for the Senate will be based on a record of constant, unshakable loyalty to the Democratic platform and the head of our party, President Roosevelt...
...Kentucky Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley's campaign for re-election against ambitious Governor "Happy" Chandler-it began last January with a testimonial banquet at which his supporters read a forthright letter of endorsement from the President-was proceeding with active White House support. It was indicated that the President himself might make a Barkley speech in Kentucky after attending the 75th anniversary celebration of the Battle of Gettysburg...
Pennsylvania. Franklin Roosevelt recently said that Pennsylvania's Democratic primary campaign reminded him of Dante's Inferno. Suave Democratic State Chairman David Lawrence had refused to support the United Mine Workers' Secretary, Thomas Kennedy, for Governor. So Senator Joe Guffey and Miner John L. Lewis formed an alliance to unseat the regular Democratic organization. Not only did Guffey-Lewis back Miner Kennedy against the organization's gubernatorial candidate, a mild, mustached Pittsburgh lawyer named Charles Alvin Jones. They also supported Philadelphia's mud-slinging ex-Republican Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson against Governor George Earle...
When the last days of the campaign became so savage that it seemed Pennsylvania's Democracy might be wrecked, James A. Farley made an election eve proposal that each faction sacrifice one candidate, compromise on an Earle-Kennedy combination. This proposal Governor Earle promptly repudiated. Next day Pennsylvania's other Democrats repudiated it too, nominated Candidate Jones 6-to-5 over Candidate Kennedy. Candidate Earle 2-to-1 over Candidate Wilson...
...Student Union Committee, headed by Walter B. Cannon, Higginson Professor of Physiology, is launching the campaign which is being extended to most of the Houses and many of the graduate school halls. The treasurer of the Committee is H. Van Buren Cleveland...