Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instead of going to Democratic National Headquarters in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, where four years ago he received the congratulations of Al Smith and mobs of supporters, Franklin Roosevelt spent election evening with family and friends at Hyde Park. In the smoking room were installed teletype machines which chattered...
*Of the first 31,275,348 major party ballots tabulated by Associated Press, 19,334,959 or 61.83% were for Roosevelt. This proved that the most accurate of all pre-election straw polls was the survey conducted by FORTUNE. In its October issue, FORTUNE indicated that Roosevelt would have 61.73...
Thus John Nance Garner & wife at the schoolhouse poll near their home election morning. They had started out an hour early by mistake, walked back home to wait, and now Mr. Garner was impatient. He had marked ballot No. 13 with scarcely a glance at it.
Alone with a microphone, after all the crowds, the shouts, the flaring lights, Alf Landon spoke in a voice surprisingly calm and deep. It grew ever quieter, slower, more halting as he reached the close of his election eve broadcast, last speech of his campaign. "Our healing . . . will be revealed...
Energetic Frank Knox spent election night bustling about his Chicago Daily News office, getting out extras conceding his defeat. One consolation to the booming Colonel as he settled back into publishing harness and competition with Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick's Tribune was Chicago's decision at the polls...