Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"And in this campaign another herring turns up. In former years it has been British or French-and a variety of other things. But this year it is Russian. Desperate in mood, angry at failure, cunning in purpose, individuals and groups are seeking to make Communism an issue in an...
"I am an American before I am a Democrat, before I am a Republican or before I'm anything, and I have never in my long public career ducked, dodged and pussyfooted, I have never found fault with anything unless I was prepared to suggest a remedy. . . . I firmly...
In the most vital portion of his speech, Lord Linlithgow faced candidly the fact that the new Constitution is so drawn that his personal exercise of the powers conferred upon him as Governor General will largely determine whether it proves to be liberal or repressive, whether it promotes greater harmony...
In a brisk one-day session, the Convention voted to picket all tearooms employing other than Association tea-leaf readers, appeal to President Roosevelt to push repeal of state statutes outlawing fortune telling. Cried diminutive President Perota: "Legalizing fortune telling would eliminate the quacks. . . . Clairvoyants could be licensed. They would...
These New York Herald Tribune headlines last week delighted those readers of that arch-Republican sheet who hope to see Franklin Roosevelt defeated in November. Republicans, Democrats and non-partisans were equally curious about the reasoning which led to the headlines' conclusion. One Rogers C. Dunn, the Herald Tribune...