Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During his recent fantastic but successful electioneering campaign, self-styled Technocrat Frenssen continued his latest method of making his living-peddling coffee from a tricycle. Last week he was still peddling coffee, displayed on his tricycle a sign reading: "Electors, I thank you from the bottom of my heart...
...head, broad white mustache and scarred cheeks (he was treated with radium for cancer of the face), is a familiar figure on Baltimore streets. In his lapel he wears a pink rose, sent fresh by an admiring friend four times a week. Below the rose is a large blue campaign button bearing a red question mark. As he meets his friends Dr. Kelly presents them with small reprints from the New Testament, saying, "Here's my card," and when strangers question him about his interrogating button, he invariably asks: "What is the most important thing in the world...
...Vigorous Campaign Used...
Fifty speakers have been used by the Committee for Plan E in their campaign, and they have also done a great deal of house-to-house canvassing. A sound-film explaining the working of the city-manager and proportional representation system of government has been shown at all times of the day in a room in Central Square...
Chastened and hoarse after a campaign which he lost by a handful of votes, Michael A. Sullivan, unsuccessful candidates for the state legislature, showed flashes of his old form yesterday afternoon when he said, "Landis is a carpetbagger who came here from the West and tried to tell the people of Cambridge how to run their own government...