Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These speculative fireworks were not, as some irreconcilables suggested, a studied Democratic attempt to heap insult on the injury of Alf Landon's defeat. Neither was it a rising vote in favor of the New Deal. It might have been explained by the hopes & fears of Inflation, since the...
Dr. Townsend, who had also vapored about "controlling" the next Congress, claimed 102 sympathizers in the new House. But of the successful candidates whom he endorsed, only a fraction returned the compliment in a pre-election poll by United Press in which 240 Congressmen-to-be declared themselves stanchly opposed...
"The National Union," said Father Coughlin of his organization day after election, "may be compared to Joe Louis in his recent fight against Max Schmeling. Our aim now is a trip to the showers, and a new training camp for our comeback, if and when it is required."
The Roosevelt avalanche last week left many a U. S. news publisher wondering if writing and printing an editorial page was worth the trouble. All through the land, voters thumpingly disregarded the editorial politics of an estimated 80% of the nation's daily Press (TIME, Nov. 2). In Chicago...
"This election demonstrated that the power of the press to sway public opinion in this country is dying if not dead . . . that people read newspapers these days to get facts-baseball and football and stockmarket scores, weather reports, facts from the fighting fronts and the war medicine distilleries, shopping tips...