Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Not since the Civil War has either party lost a Presidential election without making a comeback in the election two years later. In 1922 the Democrats cut the Republican House majority from 168 to 18. In 1930 the Democrats added 55 seats to their strength in the House and took...
New York. Valiant was the Republican fight in New York. With immense energy the Gubernatorial nominee, Robert Moses, New York City's Commissioner of Parks, belabored Democratic Governor Herbert Lehman. It was Jew v. Jew and the lie was passed, but nobody was interested. With equally stern purpose the...
Indiana. Republican Senator Arthur Robinson was campaigning for re-election on the grounds that his opponent, Sherman Minton, was picked by Governor McNutt and Governor McNutt's Parole Board freed John Dillinger year and a half ago. Senator Robinson, because of his vicious personal attacks upon the White House...
But it is not altogether Mr. Fletcher's fault that his struggle with the New Deal is no contest. The Republican campaign chest was very bare. The National Committee reported collections of only $90,000, a deficit of $52,000. What cast G. O. Partisans down, though, was not...
Less incensed was Franklin Roosevelt by the practice. Asked about it at a press conference, he smiled indulgently, remarked that politicians are likely to claim everything before an election.