Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The most valuable political heritage Huey Long left behind was a set of election laws which gave absolute control to the party in power of every ballot box and polling place in Louisiana. While nobody had ever tested it, it looked as if all the "ins" had to do was...
On primary day the Longsters happily touched off the "Kingfish's" electoral cannon. Hours before the polls were scheduled to close, election officials quit counting the votes. Since radio reports had assured them that the primary was in the bag, they merely bundled up the ballots and sent them...
President Roosevelt was represented in the funeral procession which wound slowly this week from Westminster Hall to Paddington Station by grey & graceful little Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis, to whom was assigned as Lord-in-Waiting moose-tall Lord Howard of Penrith, onetime British Ambassador in Washington. For Adolf...
On Dec. 21 the King and Queen motored 100 miles northeast of London to spend Christmas at Sandringham. His Majesty's health permitted him to shoot pheasants, attend church, ride his pony and be most gracious in replying to villagers' greetings. He overtaxed his strength inspecting his racing...
Grocer-Senator. Born 61 years ago in Providence, R. I., Abby Greene Aldrich Rockefeller has known great wealth and its power all her life. Her father, the late Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, onetime grocer, was probably the richest man ever to enter the U. S. Senate. When he died in 1915...