Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the shooting was all over, members rejoiced in the thought that no matter what home-folks think, this autumn there is no election. Some wandered up to the press-galleries to sit in a last pitch-game with newshawks and cameramen, chipping in to send a boy across the...
>Tammany Boss Frank V. Kelly of Brooklyn succeeded in getting Franklin Roosevelt to appoint his friend Harold M. Kennedy U. S. Attorney for New York City's Eastern district, instead of David Schenker, candidate of Mayor LaGuardia and Thomas ("Uncorkable") Corcoran. Interpretation: after his talk last fortnight with Mr...
Packed with big names, big numbers, in-laws, cousins and old friends, Tory M.P. sometimes reads like the society page of a small-town newspaper conscientiously reporting a family reunion. This has the effect of making wealthy Tories appear less menacing than the authors intended. Also weakening the picture is...
Excuse for last week's action was that France could not afford to hold a general election, with its attendant publicity of the divisions of French political thought, while it was engaged in a "white war" with the Axis powers. Said Finance Minister Paul Reynaud, author of the French...
The signs designated the groups represented in the Alliance, including the two U. S. Negro bodies, National Baptist Convention and National Baptist Convention of America.* They were meant simply to make it easy for the Baptists to find their friends. But down came the signs, at the order of Dr...