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Word: electioneerings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another Democrat seeking office is William J. Foley, whom Mr. Curley referred to as "the Dumb Dora of Pemberton Square," shortly after making him District Attorney. Since that time Boston has sunk steadily into the mire of corruption until now the town's law-breakers are not infrequently recruited from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROTTEN APPLES | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

Millionaire Palm Beachers Edward T. Stotesbury, Barclay H. -Warburton, Joseph E. Wldener, never on good terms with Neighbor Beula Croker, protested loudly when she tried to raise money by subdividing her property and selling it in lots. In 1932 she worked hard for Roosevelt's election, for a time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Widow's Wigwam | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

Arkansas law says that a Senate vacancy shall be filled by special election within 120 days. Last week, 96 days after the late great Joseph Taylor Robinson died in the heat of the Senate battle over Franklin Roosevelt's plan to enlarge the Supreme Court, Arkansas voters went to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARKANSAS: Bailey v. Miller | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

To get a Democratic nomination in Arkansas is under normal circumstances tantamount to election. All Arkansas' Governor Carl Edward Bailey needed to do was to call a primary election which he could almost certainly have won. Instead, last August he chose what then appeared to be the even less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARKANSAS: Bailey v. Miller | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

The second poll in France's nationwide election for municipal councilors (TIME, Oct. 18), confirmed last week the first results tabulated fortnight ago, proved two things: 1) the Radical Socialist Party of Premier Camille Chautemps. a party which is not radical but studiously middleclass, still polls more votes in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Pause Wins | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

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