Word: electioneer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Horatio Seymour was defeated by Ulysses S. Grant, who had a plurality of only 305,456 votes of the total vote of 5,724,688. Seymour carried New York, New Jersey, Oregon, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Maryland. The election of Grant was inevitable, for Grant sympathizers dominated the election...
"The fact that the present-day Tammany has advocated election reforms, fought for woman suffrage, enacted the most progressive social-service and public-welfare laws in the world, and that these laws and the Tammany-made industrial code for the protection of wage-earners of both sexes have been copied...
George William Norris has been a Senator from Nebraska for 15 years. Before that he served ten years in the House. So cynical an observer as Frank R. Kent of the Baltimore Sun calls him "the most honest Senator." He sits on the Republican side; he is chairman of the...
*The world press was just on the scent of the Anglo-French negotiations by Sir Austen himself, when he committed the crowning blunder of formally alluding to them in an indirect, tantalizing manner before the House of Commons. These indefensibly premature remarks, amounting to an open boast that he had...
Correspondent Willis J. Abbot introduced into his cable such recondite or non-existent U.S. slang phrases as "spot the lady." Cabled he: "The peoples of the United States are today busily engaged in trying to 'spot the lady' in the most puzzling presidential election that has ever taken place in...