Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When bespectacled, downright Republican Frank Dwight Fitzgerald upset pious Democrat Frank Murphy in Michigan's gubernatorial election last November, he dealt a sad blow to New Deal pride. After turning out the man who turned him out in 1936, Governor Fitzgerald set about undoing (mainly by budgetary starvation) much...
This reminded Michiganders that in November they had for the seventh time elected to the Lieutenant Governorship Oldster Luren Dudley Dickinson, a Republican with a strong rural and prohibitionist following. When they went to look for Lieut. Governor Dickinson, who will be 80 next month, they found him also bedded...
The election of Lothrep Withington Jr. and Thomas P. Barufield to the Freshman Committee of the P. B. H. was announced last night.
The report said that the investigating committee was "in the somewhat unique position of being in substantial agreement" with both sides, but declared that the "sense of unity" and "training in the democratic process" which it gives swung the balance in favor of the election's retention.
The Council was forced to choose between ignoring the petition and holding the election on the one hand, and having the referendum on the other. The Council was aware of the disadvantages of having a referendum on such short notice. The disadvantage of holding the elections in the face of...