Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Question-of-the-hour put by Roosevelt loyalists to their fellow Democrats is: "Do you oppose a third term for the President? When it reached resilient Maury Maverick-the super-New-Dealer who, defeated for re-election to the House, snapped back last month as mayor of San Antonio-the...
The morning after the King and Queen arrived on U. S. soil (see p. 75), the London Times published a 32-page "United States Number" as a supplement to its regular edition. The 10,000 copies sent to the U. S. were snatched up in three hours, as amusing souvenirs...
In Florida the law says that a political party must poll at least 15% of votes cast in general elections to keep its place on the ballot at the next election. Two years ago the required figure was 30%, but the Legislature lowered it for the benefit of the Republican...
The slogan of most opposition parties in Europe might well be the battle cry that punsters once pinned on U. S. Socialist Norman Thomas: "Cast away your votes and follow me!" Oppositionists are purged in Russia, shot in Germany, castor-oiled in Italy, executed in Spain, while in most of...
Internal harmony restored, Labor then jumped with ineffectual vigor on Prime Minister Chamberlain, damned his delay in concluding a defensive pact with Russia, denounced his policy in Palestine by a vote of 890-to-2. But it accepted conscription lying down. And although it began preparations for a general election...