Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know full well that the campaign against us in the press, encouraged and abetted by your 'warning,' has reached new heights of unprincipled slander. You know perfectly well that the charges that we intended to 'coerce,' 'mace' or 'shake down' the WPA workers are without an iota of justification in fact...
...Declaration by the Senate Campaign Investigating Committee that two Federal job-holders-Collector of Internal Revenue H. Hampton Magruder at Baltimore, Postmistress Maude Toulson at Salisbury-had violated Federal laws in politicking for Candidate Lewis...
...chairman of the powerful Rules Committee-to bottle up New Deal legislation, notably the Wages-&-Hours Bill, which Rules twice kept off the floor until the White House prodded the House into discharging the bill from committee. Already marked for Purge when he went back to the Gashouse to campaign this spring, Congressman O'Connor wrote a letter to the New Dealish Daily News, claiming that his only actual anti-New Deal vote was against Reorganization. But he was too late, and Franklin Roosevelt branded his brow along with that of Millard Tydings by declaring that a New York...
...Elpidio Perdomama of Morelos. Taken before military authorities at Mexico City, "The Noodle" explained that the assaults attributed to him over four States for a number of years were all untrue, claimed that he started robbing only as a defiant gesture against a ruthless politician who tried to wring campaign contributions out of him. Having thus implied that Mexico's "New Deal" suited his political tastes, Bandit Rodríguez promised to reform, was promptly set free by President Lázaro Cárdenas' authorization...
...fears his mayor. To him City Hall represents politics, and he feels much safer if the mayor cannot interfere with his salary, his budget or his educational program. With the cry "Keep politics out of the schools," superintendents, teachers and like-minded citizens have waged an increasingly successful campaign to make schools independent of city governments. Today, in nearly three-quarters of the 191 largest U. S. cities, school boards are elected directly by voters (the rest are appointed by mayors, city councils, judges, State agencies), and in over half of these cities neither city nor county officials have...