Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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If the amendment became part of the Constitution, as New York Times Pundit Arthur Krock, who called it "dream-born" and a "museum piece," pointed out, any nation could "peacefully" occupy any part of the U. S. without danger of having war declared before a national election had been held...
The example set in the Stalin district was rapidly followed all over the Soviet Union, candidates everywhere withdrawing in favor of the candidate favored by the Communist Party and the Stalin State. In all Russia last week there were only two constituencies in which there was more than one candidated...
People's Choice. If all these things did not quite measure up to the U. S. idea of a free democratic election, they were nonetheless quite a big enough dose for Russian minds and Russian methods to cope with. Getting ballots and pencils to the places where they were needed...
...candidates did their best at the unaccustomed game of electioneering. In Moscow, one Ivan Gudov, candidate, electioneered by announcing that two days before the election he turned out on his lathe "4,852% more work than I am supposed to do in a day!" In Leningrad, the local head of the Secret Police, Leonid Zakowsky, issued a handbill urging his election which said: "Our people are confident of their fate and their country because they now have experienced and tested their police and detective forces!" The voters also did their best, in Stalin's district they wrote slogans like HURRAH...
Since the death of Lenin in 1924 and the expulsion of Trotsky, Stalin has driven and scolded 166,000,000 Russians to equip the Soviet Union with fairly adequate heavy industry, to collectivize Russian farms, to build an army, to fulfill successive Five Year Plans. The cost of these successes...