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Word: electioneerings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ Released last week were the results of the latest Gallup poll on Franklin Roosevelt. Results snowed: 1) that the President was only slightly less popular with its respondents than on Election Day, 1936, but 2) that 70% of them are now against electing him for a third term. Results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Midnight Mystery | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

November. Of the 48 U. S. States, 33 will elect Governors this fall. Of the 33, six are in the South where Republicans do not expect to elect candidates, seven are West, where Republican machines have broken down completely. Of the 20 left. Republicans are sure of only three and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Elephant Boy | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

Massachusetts' swart little Congressman Joe Martin, who since January 1937 has been Chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee, was awaiting only the result of the first Congressional primary of the year in Illinois next week before going into action as the key-man in what may well turn out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Elephant Boy | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

Republican balance sheet as of April 1 is much less impressive. The party has no leader. The only claimants to the title -Messrs. Hoover, Landon, Borah et al.- are not compelling personalities. G. O. P. had 17,000,000 votes at last count but these were able to elect only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Elephant Boy | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

Into Chinatown last autumn went an organizer for lively International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, before long organized in Joe Shoong's factory the union's first Chinese local. A National Labor Relations Board election in January established it as sole bargaining agent. Negotiations started. Two weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Toggery Trouble | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

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