Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like two dogs who feel they have an urgent appointment with a rabbit, the two major party candidates for President last week coursed hither and yon, frantically nosing crisscross tracks which to their nostrils had a delicious odor of election. Every time the scent turned and twisted, the two hounds...
On the Saturday before election, they made their last big speeches, leaving only afterthoughts and last appeals for their election-eve broadcasts. In Madison Square Garden, flanked by his mother, wife and daughter, Franklin Roosevelt poured out his heartfelt bitterness at those who resented his efforts to uplift the U...
A few moments later in St. Louis' Municipal Auditorium, Alfred M. Landon took the platform, accompanied for the first time in the campaign by his wife and his daughter. The crowd shouted in frenzy. "Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen," he began. Not a word was audible above the hubbub...
Many an irrepressible politician, journalist and poll taker last week risked a flunking mark by guessing the answers to the Presidential election before they were officially available. Some of the guesses:
Early election morning, while most voters were still asleep, election officials at Watertown, Wis., rubbed their sleepy eyes. Into the polls waddled 215-lb. Arthur E. ("Turkey") Gehrke to cast his vote for "the winner" so that next day he could with an easy conscience go to bed as usual...