Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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On May 18, 1917 Congress voted a selective draft and President Wilson proclaimed June 5 as Registration Day. So early a date would have been impossible had not a daring young officer named Hugh Samuel Johnson in the Provost Marshal General's office presumed to draw up and have...
Since 1930 a major obstacle to intelligent handling of relief and recovery has been the lack of accurate statistics on the number, occupations and geographical distribution of the unemployed. Before 1932 the Democrats lambasted President Hoover for this blind spot on the nation's No. 1 problem. Since 1932...
To Senator Harrison who needs the veterans' vote for re-election next year and who, as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, must fight the Administration's anti-Bonus battle in the Senate, voluntary compromise now looked more desirable than an enforced compromise weeks hence. President Roosevelt could...
With Mussert lying low as usual, one of his successful candidates, Count Marchant Dansembourg, predicted with fine Netherlandish restraint that in the general election of 1937 N. S. B. will poll 40% of the vote.
Lawyer & Community. Ask knowing San Franciscans who is their city's most potent figure and they will probably say Banker Herbert Fleishhacker because his finger still is in so many pies. Ask who is the greatest potential force and they will say Jack Neylan. As to whether his power...