Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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At 10 a.m. next morning, only one man knew how hot would be the words at that session. This was Labormaster John L. Lewis, the first-and next-to-last-witness. Solemnly and heavily he sat in the witness-chair, his coal-miner's pallor* heightened by his rumpled...
First Negro ever appointed to the Federal judiciary was William Henry Hastie, whom Franklin Roosevelt sent to the District Court of the racially scrambled Virgin Islands (TIME, Feb. 15, 1937). Judge Hastie resigned this year to become dean of Howard University's law school (Washington, D. C.). Last week...
>In a Gallup poll, 38% of those asked said they would vote Franklin Roosevelt a third term, 40% said they would vote against him, 22% didn't know, said it depended on the other candidate. Pollster Gallup computed the 22%-balance wheel the 1940 election-at 10,000,000...
Perspiring Governor Earl Long, with the January primary election on his mind, was certain they could think of plenty. And this week began on a weird note: it appeared certain that valuable oil deposits had been struck on the newly seeded campus of L. S. U.
"Next election," he says, "the New Deal is going to be on trial again. President Roosevelt is its ablest spokesman and in a Democratic country it deserves an able advocate. I hope he runs. Then we can debate it to everybody's satisfaction. It will be a great discussion...