Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In a hospital room in little Lafayette, Ala. one day last week a fleshy, feverish old man lay still in the grip of lobar pneumonia. Having passed through several days of delirium, he did not know what day it was and he was too tired to ask. That was just...
Not for two days did Tom Heflin learn that the election was over. "When I told him," reported Secretary Roy Parker, "he wasn't bitter at all. He just said 'The Lord takes care of His children and there are other things to be thankful for.' "
Last week's election for the Democratic nomination to fill the unexpired Senate term of Hugo LaFayette Black presumably meant a seven-year job because it tacitly carried with it a good chance for the nomination for the full term next year. For such a prime political plum, Tom...
The rally, ostensibly sponsored by the local Chamber of Commerce to demonstrate the city's faith in Mayor Frank Hague and his high-handed tactics against C. I. 0., was staged with a brassy precision which only the Hague machine could produce. For to Frank Hague, who has kept...
Picketing of Automats, which had become almost as much of an institution in Manhattan as the Automat itself, came to a sudden end last week after five uproarious months. The strike was called last August by two unions, Bakery Workers and Cafeteria Employes, after they lost a collective bargaining election...