Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indisputably his State's most popular politician, he amassed 243,682 votes in the Democratic primary this year to 196,876 for all his opponents. He spends no money in the primary, except for gas and oil, and has just returned a $500 check from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, explaining that he does not propose to spend any on the election either. This attitude, which might be pose in another politician, seems natural to anyone who knows Homer Bone...
With half the nation up to its ears in politics, Franklin Roosevelt last week played his familiar double role: half chief of the Democratic Party, half Chief Executive. As a partyman he flared angrily at Congressman Dies for embarrassing faithful Frank Murphy's re-election campaign in Michigan (see p. 8); sent a message to Minnesota to help Governor Elmer Benson (Farmer-Labor) stem the onslaught of Liberal Republican Harold Stassen (see p. 10), another to Pennsylvania to help George Earle toward the Senate, another to California to help Sheridan Downey; interviewed a series of political callers including dark...
...than Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt also spoke up. Her sounding board was the Republican New York Herald Tribune's annual Forum on Current Problems (which also heard Mr. Dies). She spoke by radio from Cincinnati, Ohio, a State where an able Democratic wife could be useful in offsetting the campaign efforts of an able Republican wife. Mrs. Robert A. Taft (see p. 9). Said Mrs. Roosevelt by radio: "I am very much disturbed . . . more women than men write to me suggesting that Communism may be gaining a real hold. There is stress laid upon what to fight against rather than...
...interview was conducted during a ten minute walk from the Hotel Brad ford where he had just made a recording of a speech in the studios of Station WBZ, along Tremont Street to the foot of the State House hill. Accompanying Saltonstall was Danny Lynch, his campaign manager...
...question as to the progress of the campaign brought a definite statement. "I am confident that the good judgement of the people of Massachusetts will make them elect me their Governor on next Tuesday...