Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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*Under his two resounding rebukes from the electorate, Red-baiting, Roosevelt-hating Publisher McCormick went down unyielding, unrelenting. Said the Tribune's lead election story: "More Socialists and Communists voted for Mr. Roosevelt than for their own candidates. . . .Thus was established the 'popular front' against capitalism planned...
There are 69 Democrats, only 22 Republicans in the present Senate. The pot of dreams at the end of the Republican rainbow was 1) to whittle down the Democratic majority this year, 2) whittle some more in 1938, 3) win a majority in 1940. Day after election it appeared that...
Few were the newsworthy old faces removed from, or new faces added to, the House. Most picturesque Congressman-reject was a woman, California's chunky, wisecracking old Florence Kahn, beaten after six terms by San Francisco's County Supervisor Franck Havenner on a straight Re-elect Roosevelt platform...
Michigan. To help make Michigan safe for Democracy, President Roosevelt brought popular, vote-getting Frank Murphy back from his $18,000 job as Philippine High Commissioner to run for the $5,000 Governorship of Michigan. Month ago the redhaired, freckled, dynamic onetime Mayor of Detroit was so worried about his...
Illinois. Despite lukewarm support from Chicago's Kelly-Nash machine, Democratic Governor Henry Horner piled up a 293,000 lead in Cook County, showed surprising strength downstate to win re-election over young Republican Charles Wayland ("Curly") Brooks.