Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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I think it would be interesting to know how the Matanuska colony in Alaska voted in the Presidential election.
On a strict cash-politics basis Mr. Davies was not entitled to the job. He gave only $17,500 to the Democratic campaign chest this year, whereas his rival for the job, Curtis Bok, esthetic son of the late great editor of the Ladies' Home Journal, gave $30,000...
Sixty-six years ago the populous city of Buffalo provided almost unparalleled conveniences for its inhabitants. It had approximately one saloon for every 220 citizens, male and female, infantile, adult and senile. Its facilities for gambling and original sin were on a similar scale. In this situation a 33-year...
On election day Erie County's 179,000 citizens elected him by a bare majority of 303 votes, trailing his ticket. He did a good job as sheriff. He cleaned out graft in the dissolute county jail and made himself unpopular with local politicians, but misfortune lay in store...
Trouble started when the local Storage Warehouse Union called a strike on all but one of the city's six biggest department stores. John Wanamaker's was exempted because it came to union terms after a strike last spring. With an enthusiasm which reminded observers of Philadelphia'...