Word: electioneer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In Congress: He served one complete term (1919-1925) in the Senate. Seeking re-election in 1924 he was defeated by a narrow margin (20,000 votes) by onetime House Speaker Frederick Gillett in the Coolidge landslide. His revenge came in 1926 when he ousted from a Senate seat William...
Not so long ago he was ignominiously unseated from the Assembly for bribery in elections: free drinks on election day, free uniforms for the local fire brigade, free cows for peasants of questionable loyalty. In the recent Senatorial elections Senator-Baron Maurice was more cautious. He bought no cows, contented...
"There has been no election in Mexico. Mexico has failed in democracy. . . . Everywhere citizens have been kept from the polls. In this was furthered the most impudent imposition ever recorded in Mexican history."
The anti-re-electionists were speaking figuratively, sarcastically. There was an election last week, in which 19 Mexicans were killed, 23 wounded, and Pascual Ortiz Rubio, government-supported candidate, was elected by a reputed majority of 700,000 to serve as President for the remaining four years, nine months and...
Gunfire commenced early. Mexico's election law provides, apparently in an effort to improve the shooting, that the first nine citizens who succeed in registering at a voting booth are thereby constituted the election board for the day. By noon hundreds of Mexican voting booths were wrecked, most of the...