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Word: electioneerings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson, kingpin of Minnesota's Farmer-Labor Party, months ago laid his plans to get into the U. S. Senate when Minnesota's Republican Thomas D. Schall should come up for re-election next autumn. Suddenly, last fortnight, a Senate seat was dropped into Governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Senator Pro Tem | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

The sheer character of Squire Baldwin had by this time covered the stinking piece of fish with a sauce rich and delightful and Made-In-England. Proceeding, the Prime Minister took his stand not upon what he and his Cabinet had done and not upon what they had said, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Hoare Crisis | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

Stark Reality. It was presently evident that, as often happens in the case of honest Stanley Baldwin, he did not mean his words in the sense conveyed by their sound to non-Britons. They implied that the Government, since it stands where it has always stood, had not upon that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Hoare Crisis | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

The new civilian Premier, nervous Mr. Constantine Demerdjis, grew more alarmed than ever as he read in General Kondylis' newsorgan: "The new Government rests on a basis from which premiers have fallen and kings been overthrown!" Nonetheless George II set his big jawbone. Instead of convening Parliament and challenging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: General v. King | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

Because the higher courts are geared to corporation rather than racketeering law, Caridius' career is cut short at the peak. Suspected of being accessory to kidnapping and murder, he forfeits his newly-won seat in the Senate because he is convicted of falsifying his election expenses. In his cell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Urbane Mirror | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

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