Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The best wisecrack of the 1936 campaign is credited by most qualified newshawks to Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, who made it at a press conference in Democratic National Headquarters, Manhattan, day after the election.- ED.
Most important political event in the U. S. since the election of Nov. 3 took place last week at a private luncheon and caucus of 24 of Pennsylvania's 27 Democratic Congressmen in Washington's Hotel Mayflower. Host was Pennsylvania's Senator Joseph F. Guffey. Newshawks hovering...
After Dr. Francis E. ("The Plan") Townsend cried persecution and flounced out of a House investigating committee room last spring (TIME, June 1), the House boldly voted to charge him with contempt, then discreetly proceeded to let the matter lapse until after election. Soon as the old pensioneer's...
In May 1932 Charles Manley Smith, president of Marble Savings Bank of small Rutland, Vt., learned that John J. Cocklin, a bookkeeper, had embezzled $251,000 from the bank's savings deposits, lost most of it in the stockmarket. A descendant of pioneer Vermont settlers, Banker Smith quickly reasoned...
That explanation was certainly reasonable. A few days later, at the annual convention of the Investment Bankers Association in Augusta. Ga., in his first speech since the election. Chairman Landis officially confirmed the prevalent belief that for the next four years SEC intends to be tough. Referring to holding company...