Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to TIME, Nov. 16, "editors and statesmen of every capital in the world . . . responded to news of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's landslide re-election with an international ovation for the winner."
For his part in the killing of five Democratic marchers in a 1934 election eve parade at Kalayres, Pa., that mining town's Republican Boss Joseph J. Bruno, onetime county detective, was sentenced to three life terms in prison (TIME, Nov. 19, 1934). Since his last trial, Boss Bruno...
Representative Hamilton Fish of New York, present by proxies from Alaska and Puerto Rico, won himself no welcome by gloating: "I carried Roosevelt's own district for Landon and myself by 24,000- and that's more than the rest of you can say." Long famed as a...
"Who would you think had won the election?
In the grand ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last week took place the year's most spectacular conversion. Having assimilated last month's election returns, 1,800 high-powered U. S. citizens convened for the 41st annual meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers. Loudly...