Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philadelphia. Having been a Republican in 1905, a Wilson Democrat in 1912 and 1916, a Republican officeholder in 1927, a successful candidate for Democratic city controller in 1933 and for Republican mayor in 1935, Philadelphia's boisterous Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson was last week plunking his oratorical hardest for...
Unique among U. S. municipal political bosses is white-haired, jaunty Edward Hull Crump of Memphis. Tenn. Boss Crump has controlled all the elective offices in Tennessee's biggest city for the past 30 years. With some 60,000 votes, more than a quarter of the State's...
Boss Crump's power in Tennessee was never more convincingly demonstrated than a year ago when his candidate for Governor, Gordon Browning, won the Democratic primary by a 2 to 1 majority, carrying Memphis' Shelby County by 60,208 to his opponent's 881. It was never...
Died. Charles Marron Fickert, 64, onetime District Attorney of San Francisco, prosecutor of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings for the 1916 Preparedness Day Bombings; of pneumonia; in San Francisco. After his successful prosecution of Mooney and Billings, Attorney Fickert twice ran unsuccessfully for re-election as District Attorney, once ran...
When things have come to such a pass that the Sultan turns commoner and runs for president, Eddie to his horror is made a write-in opposition candidate, campaigns against himself to no effect: he sweeps the country except for the outlying provinces of Maino and Vermontash. The nine old...