Word: electioneered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Virginia. Nationally significant was the election as Virginia's next Governor of Professor John Garland Pollard (William & Mary), regular Democrat, over Professor William Moseley Brown (Washington & Lee), Hoovercrat. Republican claim- stakes sunk in Virginia by Herbert Hoover last year were jerked up and cast aside as the State was...
New York City. Tammany's Mayor James John Walker beat Republican Congressman Fiorello Henry La Guardia for the No. 1 municipal office in the U. S. by an eight-to-three margin. The only surprise in the election was a large "protest" vote given Socialist Norman Thomas (174,931...
Buffalo. Two years ago Mayor Francis Xavier Schwab's chow dog bit Jane Gunther, his little granddaughter. Mrs. Theresa Gunther, the Mayor's daughter and Jane's mother, indignantly demanded the dog's death. Mayor Schwab refused. The family breach thus opened figured in last week...
One major result of last week's Virginia election was to shake the hopes of Hoovercrats of holding 1928 gains in the south. Another result, no less significant, was the subsidence of "Raskobism" as an effective issue within the Democratic Party. "Raskobism" became more respectable, more reputable, than it...
The Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa announced last night the election of 32 Seniors and eight Juniors to the society. The selection was approved by President Lowell and the Graduate Council of Phi Beta Kappa just after the meeting.