Word: directed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This sweep left observers surer than ever that, if Governor Landon hurdles the California primaries this week, he can jog in an easy winner at Cleveland. Breaking his discreet silence for the first time with a direct statement on the Republican race, the happy Kansas Governor wired to the Boston Herald: "The splendid Republican vote in Massachusetts should give heart to the entire country. So far as its personal bearing is concerned, I am deeply grateful for the confidence in me that it demonstrates. But I believe it reflects something of more significance than any personal factor...
...People are increasingly turning away from the waste, the uncertainty and the futility of the present Administration at Washington. If given a direct choice at the fall election between good government and bad government, there can be no doubt as to their decision." As the sole Presidential entrant in Pennsylvania's Republican primaries last week, Senator William Edgar Borah received the compliment of a pencil scratch from more than 300,000 voters. Only 20 of the State's 75 convention delegates had pledged themselves in advance to support the popular choice, were last week reported eager to weasel...
Although no mention is made of the reason for this unusual omission, it is obvious that the action is a direct result of the contested decision rendered at Yale on March 7 when the undefeated Harvard team encountered the Eli fighters and a disagreement arose as to the method of scoring used by Yale...
...this system of voting were made uniform throughout the College, all residents of the Houses would have a much more direct control over those whom they were going to vote for, and consequently would be inclined to take a greater interest in the affairs of the House. Voting would be a two minute job before or after a meal, thus dong away with the difficulties of collecting signatures for petitions to add names to a ballot that a partisan Committee might have committed...
...President Roosevelt personally has set in motion a campaign to discredit, if possible, the effectiveness of those Washington correspondents who write articles critical of his Administration. . . . The direct connection between the public attack made by the Democratic National Committee on various Washington correspondents and the President's conversations in private is no longer a secret and in the public interest ought not to be. ... If writers who are conscientiously trying to write their impressions of what is happening in Washington are to be made the objects of a punitive campaign because they happen to disagree, this, too, ought...