Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That was not enough to blow down 62-year-old Edward Joseph Kelly, six-year Mayor of Chicago and co-Boss of the Democratic machine. Without once using the word "Green" during his entire campaign, Ed Kelly collected 822,469 votes, which were more than anyone of any party had...
Chief significance of the election was to test the efficiency of the Chicago Democratic machine, the Horatius that has kept downstate Illinoisans from pushing the third most populous State in the U. S. over the bridge to its "normal" Republicanism. In 1932 the machine held Herbert Hoover down to 41...
Two months ago a petty issue-appointment of a doctor named Adrian Martens to the Flemish Academy of Medicine-cut through Belgian politics like a hot knife through lard. Patriotic War Veterans objected to Dr. Martens' appointment on the grounds that he was 1) a mediocre medical man, 2...
By the time the election was held last week, external pressure had molded the lump of lard back into one solid piece. Belgians were so frightened by what happened to an internally weak Czecho-Slovakia that they crowded to the polls to elect a Parliament of unity, moderation, stability. Most...
Most striking incident in Belgium's sudden unification: Dr. Martens resigned from the Academy. He announced his resignation at one o'clock the afternoon of election day-just when the polls closed, so as not to influence the vote but in plenty of time to remove his irksome...