Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ In Massachusetts, voters who gave Franklin Roosevelt a 174,000 plurality for President, Republican Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. a 143,000 plurality for Senator, and Democrat Charles F. Hurley a 39,000 plurality for Governor, proceeded also to elect a Republican Secretary of State, a Democratic State Auditor, a...
Editors and statesmen of every capital in the world last week responded to news of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's landslide re-election (TIME. Nov. 9) with an international ovation for the winner. In Berlin the President was hailed as an exponent of the führerprinzip ("leadership principle") of...
"Was this a Democratic election?" asked the Berlin Tageblatt. ''Or was it the eruption of the Führer idea within the democratic system?" Answered the London News Chronicle: "Neither Hitler nor Mussolini has ever dared to submit himself to a free vote with business and the press...
At the League of Nations bar in Geneva, inventive Proprietor Carlo Beltramo, an Italian, celebrated the Roosevelt election by inventing the Forty-Eight States Roosevelt Cocktail. Ingredients: 10 "states" of white Dutch curaçao; 10 "states" of English gin; 8 of grapefruit juice; 18 of French vermouth; one of...
* The mayor of the French town of Lannoy reminded Mr. Roosevelt by cable last week that "through your mother, Sara Delano" the President is "a descendant of a family that originated in Lannoy and which, around 1600, emigrated to the Netherlands." Offering congratulations, the Mayor of Lannoy declared: "It is...