Word: electioneer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chief political figure on the anti-export side stood former Governor Ralph Owen Brewster (1925-29). No good friends are ex-Governors Brewster and Baxter. More than once has Baxter accused Brewster of being a Ku Kluxer. More than once has Brewster implied that Baxter is dull if not dreadful...
Maine's present Governor, William Tudor Gardiner, called "the most popular man in Maine," was largely an innocent bystander in the power export fight. Yet he too was mauled upon election day. He appeared before the G. A. R. convention wearing bandages on hands and wrists. Teddy, a half-grown...
Next day, after the committee had elected as Chairman, Claudius Hart Huston of Tennessee, businessman-politician whom President Hoover had chosen to prepare the nation for his re-election in 1932, the Committee members trooped to the White House, expressed respect.
All up and down Britain the Snowden victory seemed such good politics, last week, that dopesters freely declared the Laborites could win another 50 seats in Parliament if they could find a plausible pretext to hold a general election this month.
Died. William Emmett Dever, 67, of Chicago, onetime (1923-27) Chicago Mayor; in Chicago; of cancer. Though an anti-prohibitionist, he closed 7,000 Chicago speakeasies during his incumbency. He was defeated for re-election in 1927 by William Hale Thompson.