Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After Jimmy Walker and ineffectual John P. O'Brien, Mayor LaGuardia has given New York City a shrilly articulate but assiduous, conscientious administration. He runs for re-election next fall against Tammany. Since a World's Fair will be held in New York in 1939. Tammany will fight "The Little...
Amid a drizzling rain 275,840 Brussels ballots went to van Zeeland, 69,242 to Degrelle and 18% were blank. This was "Victory for Democracy." It made Adolf Hitler so angry that his personal Berlin newsorgan Volkischer Beobachter told Germans: "The election result was falsified in advance by the statement...
American Men of Science is the U. S. Who's Who of scientific learning. The fifth and latest edition (1933) is a fat volume listing some 20,000 names, of which about 1,000 are starred with an asterisk, to designate "leading scientific workers," i. e., those chosen by...
Dr. Cattell printed no comment. Sequestered last week at his home in Garrison, N. Y., the old psychologist said he would make no public rebuttal, but asserted, as he has done before, that voting on star candidates is a more precise determination of scientific merit than election to the National...
After Hetty Green threatened to disinherit him if he accepted the gubernatorial nomination in 1906, the Negro related, Colonel Green dropped out of politics except to return to Terrell to vote in each Presidential election. Said "Gooseneck Bill" McDonald of himself: "I quit being a Republican in 1928." When hearings...